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An interview with John Banville
“I’ve been writing since I was about twelve. That’s a long time ago. It’s like breathing now; I can’t do anything else.” |
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An interview with T.C. Boyle
“I’m revising constantly as I write. Every day I go over and over what I’ve done the day before, hoping to get into that magical place where I’m unconscious and moving forward. |
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An interview with Jonathan Galassi & Jeff Seroy
“We have a very integrated and holistic approach to publishing that really has to do with our values from start to finish in every stage of the process—the intelligence, care, integrity, and partnership.” |
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A panel at McNally Jackson Bookstore with Andrés Neuman, Justin Taylor, John Reed, Carlos Labbé, and Craig Epplin
“Your life is overrun by that kind of experience and the eReader is just one more thing that needs to be plugged in, that’s going to kind of glow at you, that may or may not be emitting some sort of death ray, who knows? They’ll tell us in forty years—or they won’t.” |
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An interview with Judith Gurewich
“You have to get rid of those wonderful dialogues where nothing happens to let the story emerge.” |
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An interview with Felicia Bonaparte
“One really terrible symptom of it is the fact that nearly everyone has abandoned the phrase “I think,” and replaced it with “I feel.” Hume is smiling in his grave. People congratulate themselves on it. “I’m not judgmental,” they say proudly. They’re open-minded, inclusive, loose, they understand another’s perspective, they are hip, they go with the flow. Up to a point, this is well and good. But beyond it, what are they saying?” |
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An interview with Peter Mayer
“I got 179 letters from booksellers thanking me for “windowing” the book. They said, ‘we’ve been selling this book for you for ten years, and it’s very nice that when it breaks out, which nobody could’ve expected, that you’ve left the business with us, who supported the book for all those ten years.’ Well, we also got letters from people who own Nooks and Kindles and were angry that they couldn’t get the eBook. I wrote them a little letter saying ‘Dear Mr. Smith’ (or whatever), ‘I never told you to buy a machine. Signed, Peter Mayer.’”
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Where are the cool kids: Williamsburg or the East Village?
“We’re in Bushwick, actually, and we’re really sick of being overrun by yuppies and undergraduates. A new coffee shop called Cup just opened across the street from my apartment and a 16 oz. cup of drip is $2.75. It’s obscene. I want to make fliers to warn people. I want to shout at them from my bedroom window. Anyone who goes there more than once is a class traitor, or an idiot. There’s a family-owned bakery next door where the same cup will run you $1.50—those guys make a great sandwich, too. Stella di Cicilia Bakery at 217 Montrose Ave.” |
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An interview with Barbara Epler and Tom Roberge
“Hopefully then they’ll understand that this tradition started 75 years ago and that New Directions has always been doing this kind of experimental stuff. And if they’re well-read enough they’ll understand there is a lineage of experimental writers who eventually become classics, and that’s who we’re publishing now: writers who will eventually become classics.”
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