Showing posts with label interview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interview. Show all posts

Karim on Koryta

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Born in 1982 and with the first of his eight novels published in 2004, Michael Koryta’s star has been rising so fast, it seems a foregone conclusion we’ll be reading his muscular style of crime fiction for a long time to come.

Over at the Rap Sheet, January Magazine contributing editor Ali Karim interviews Koryta in a conversation that takes them all over the young writer’s career. Asked about

Interview: Charlotte Rogan

Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Charlotte Rogan is a superb writer invested in spellbinding fiction, ethics and the natural world.

January Magazine contributing editor MaryAnne Kolton recently spent some time with Rogan: both with her work and with the woman herself. Kolton reports that it was, on both counts, a rewarding experience.

The Lifeboat kept me awake at night,” Kolton writes. “The first night to read straight

The Titanic 100 Years on: An Interview with Author Hugh Brewster

Friday, April 13, 2012
If you’re wondering why, for the last few days, you’ve been hearing about the Titanic everywhere you turn, it’s because April 15th marks 100 years since that “unsinkable” luxury liner hit an iceberg and slipped below the waves during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City.

So much about the Titanic has kept our attention since. The fact that she was the largest ship afloat

Birthday for Chomsky

Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Writer and linguist Noam Chomsky (Making the Future, How the World Works), was born in Philadelphia on this day in 1928. From Writer’s Almanac:He said, “We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”January Magazine interviewed Chomsky in 2008. That interview is here.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: a Chat With Jeff Kinney

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
It was like a rock concert. A thousand kids, siblings, and parents, all gathered on sidewalks outside the Barnes & Noble in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Outside, even on this warm night, a pile of snow, with fake snowflakes sprayed by a special machine, and a massive luxury bus decorated with Wimpy Kid art on all sides. And at four o’clock sharp, the rock star emerges from it: Jeff Kinney, author of

Ian Rankin on Battling the Blank Page

Sunday, October 16, 2011
As The Impossible Dead, Ian Rankin’s 31st novel is about to be released, the author who put the Tartan in Noir talks to The Independent about process, production and the deadly fear of staring at the blank page.“No matter how many awards you’ve won or how many sales you’ve got, come the next book it’s still a blank sheet of paper and you’re still panicking like hell that you’ve got nothing new to