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Evie Wyld | Interview
Evie Wyld & Roy Robins
‘When I was at school I found I received the same satisfaction from writing a short story that I did doing awful self-portraits – only the results were much better.’
Charlotte Roche | Interview
Charlotte Roche & Philip Oltermann
‘I love that image. Me flying over Germany, throwing sex bombs into people’s minds.’
The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz
Evelyn Ch’ien
‘The world tends to give us pieces, and then in our imagination, because of our desire and because of our need, we make them whole.’
Gordon Burn | Interview
Gordon Burn & Simon Willis
‘The line between reality and its representation has become rivetingly porous.’
P.D. Mallamo | Interview
P. D. Mallamo & Roy Robins
‘Writing and reading in third-person present is like a high-speed drive through Nevada at two a.m.: incredibly invigorating and somewhat dangerous.’
Tim Lott | Interview
Tim Lott & Helen Gordon
‘Somehow by putting things into words you’re taking a situation that feels very out of control and creating a kind of illusion of control over it.’
Richard Ford | Interview
Tim Adams & Richard Ford
‘It may be that writing fiction, imagining agencies, is my most trusted way into the unseen.’
Pounding a Nail
Studs Terkel
‘It wasn't his first radio interview—he'd done a few in New York the previous year—but certainly among his earliest.’
The Game of Evenings
Adolf Hoffmeister & James Joyce
For Bloomsday, James Joyce and Adolf Hoffmeister argue about a Czech translation of Finnegans Wake in a rare and intimate interview from 1930.
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
