- 4/21/13 /
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At Home With Claire Messud and James Wood, the First Couple of American Fiction
On the eve of the publication of Messud's new book, she can’t shake the feeling she’s still an outsider.
Boris Kachka Archive
- 4/12/13 /
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George Saunders on Fox 8, Animal Narrators, and Hope for Humanity
He once watched two guys beat a vulture to death. "They were just kind of bored."
- 4/7/13 /
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Fiona Shaw on Playing the Mother of God in The Testament of Mary
When you’re 54 and preparing to embody the mother of God in a Broadway play that’s being rewritten a week before previews, you take sniffles seriously.
- 3/3/13 /
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Has the World Finally Caught Up With Post-Punk Author Sam Lipsyte?
A decade ago, publishers viewed him and his funny-bitter Gen-X alter egos as out of touch. A Times best-seller and new story collection, The Fun Parts, later, it’s clear the times have changed.
- 2/10/13 /
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Jesse Eisenberg Recasts Himself As a Playwright in The Revisionist
No stranger to playing the sly nebbish, he's making a neurotic and brave leap toward becoming a major playwright.
- 11/19/12 /
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How Do You Get 43 New York City Authors to a Coffee Shop at Six in the Morning?
So many authors.
- 11/18/12 /
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Ken Burns Fights City Hall Over His New Film on the Central Park Jogger Case
“It’s really about letting people get to know the Central Park Five as individuals.”
- 11/11/12 /
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Sally Field Spent a Decade Getting Into Character for Lincoln
“I’m not that bold, I’m not that tenacious. I certainly hadn’t been feeling that way for the last fifteen years of my life.”
- 10/21/12 /
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Tom Wolfe on His New Novel Back to Blood and His Fascination With the Down-and-Dirty Pecking Order
Forty-two years after “Radical Chic” and 25 since Bonfire, Tom Wolfe is still stalking the billion-footed-beast of the Big Social Novel.
- 8/22/12 /
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Junot Diaz Loves Short Stories, Even If You Don’t
"Writing short stories in a culture like ours is like giving birth to girls in a Dominican conservative family in the fifties.”