Category: Author Interview

April 3, 2018

Q&A: Sonja Arntzen on the The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan

Gazing at this, I might think that the snow had fallen out of season, if it were not for the fragrance of this orange blossoms tree. The inclusion of poetry in all the classical Japanese diaries is perhaps what sets...

March 26, 2018

What Dogs Can Teach Us About Justice: A Conversation with Colin Dayan

The more I live and the more I see how politics works now in this country, the more I believe that prejudice is a perspectival technique. It’s about how someone sees, so through dogs you begin to see things differently....

March 15, 2018

Q&A: Susan Fraiman on the Meaning of “Extreme Domesticity”

“I use the term “extreme” to jar us out of the common assumption that domestic spaces are always stable, banal, and conventional—invested in traditional family values and complacently bourgeois. The goal of my book is to trouble our stereotype of...

March 15, 2018

Q&A: Leon Hunt on Danger: Diabolik

This week, one of our featured books is Danger: Diabolik, by Leon Hunt. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Leon Hunt. Enter our book giveaway by Friday at 1 PM for a chance to win a free...

March 14, 2018

Q&A: Susan Fraiman on the Notion of Domesticity

“Domesticity for the homeless is never entirely missing, though it may certainly be shattered, incomplete, and cobbled together.” In celebration of Women’s History Month, this week one of our featured titles is Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, by Susan...

February 21, 2018

Bruce D. Haynes on Writing Down the Up Staircase

Down the Up Staircase is a riveting narrative about three generations of a black family and their struggle to maintain inherited privilege. Written with elegance and penetrating insight, the book shines light on the precarity that all blacks confront, regardless of...

February 1, 2018

“Modern Slavery” with Siddharth Kara

Contrary to what we may have learned in grammar school, slavery did not end with abolition in the 19th century. Contemporary or modern slavery wears a myriad of faces. Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of...

January 31, 2018

An Interview with Venkat Venkatasubramanian, author of How Much Inequality is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society

This week, our featured book is How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society, Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Venkat Venkatasubramanian. Q: The topic is obviously very important,...

January 24, 2018

An Interview with Wayne Byrne, Author of The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out

This week, our featured book is The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Wayne Byrne. Q: What attracted you to Tom DiCillo’s work enough for you to embark...

January 17, 2018

Q&A: Michael Tapper on Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face

This week, our featured book is Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Michael Tapper. Q: Why another book on Ingmar Bergman? A: That is the very first sentence in my...

December 13, 2017

Wai Chee Dimock: Reading American literature outside the box

This week, our featured book is American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, edited by Wai Chee Dimock, with Jordan Brower, Edgar Garcia, Kyle Hutzler, and Nicholas Rinehart. Today, we are happy to present...

December 6, 2017

Ear to the Ground, Listening for Nuclear Blasts

This week, our featured book is Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, by Lynn R. Sykes. Today, we are happy to present a short excerpt from an interview that with Kevin Krajick at State of the...