Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
The Alchemy of Composition: Jamie O’Neill’s Literary Magic
“When you’re writing you’re that bird on the wing, you’re soaring and you’re plummeting but you’re not telling the wings to do anything. When you’re describing afterwards what’s happened you’re applying logic to something that really is intuitive. You’re talking about ailerons and that sort of thing, like you’re moving an airplane rather than the eagle.”
A Study in Character: Dedra Johnson on the “Real” Voice in Fiction
Posted: March 7, 2009
Tags: Jim Thompson, Ford Maddox Ford, Toni Morrison, Robert Walser, Frederick Douglass
“I’ve always liked the idea of the unreliable narrator, or the multi-layered narrator, where you understand more than the narrator is telling you, and so I very intentionally did that with her. Sandrine being a child made it possible to do that.”
Crafting Connection: Christina Davis Reaches Out
“I think I’ve always been fascinated by freedom and the fear of freedom — and, among poets, the quest for some containment or some instruction, the quest for some criterion, for some way to know whether what we’re speaking is correct, or appropriate, or arriving somewhere.”
