Category: Author Interview

January 25, 2017

On Modernist Magazines, Little and Big — A Conversation with Eric Bulson and Donal Harris (Part 1)

Part one of a conversation between authors Eric Bulson and Donal Harris on the magazine’s influence on the development of 20th century literature and modernism.

December 20, 2016

A Cautionary Tale on Education Investment Flops: Jonathan Knee on Squawk Box

Jonathan Knee, author of CLASS CLOWNS: HOW THE SMARTEST INVESTORS LOST BILLIONS IN EDUCATION, discusses the dangers of investing in education on CNBC’s Squawk Box.

December 14, 2016

An Interview with Aarthi Vadde, Author of "Chimeras of Form"

Aarthi Vadde discusses her new book, “Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016”.

November 16, 2016

An Interview with Gayle Rogers, author of "Incomparable Empires"

Gayle Rogers discusses how imperialism, empire, and translation shaped American literature in the early twentieth century.

November 10, 2016

Interview with Donal Harris, author of "On Company Time"

Read an interview with Donal Harris, author of ON COMPANY TIME: AMERICAN MODERNISM IN THE BIG MAGAZINES, in which Harris explains “big magazines,” the relationship between journalism and literature, and his interest in the topic.

October 26, 2016

Interview with Jeremy Rosen, Author of "Minor Characters Have Their Day"

Jeremy Rosen discusses his new book, “Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace”

October 26, 2016

The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Read a Q&A with Roberto Simanowski, author of DATA LOVE: THE SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES!

October 19, 2016

Interview with Richard Plunz, author of "A History of Housing in New York City"

“Beyond doubt the large question facing New York housing production today has to do with a market that can not provide for the half of our households that are low income…. One can hope that growing public pressure bottom-up can merge with a top-down realization that we need to innovate in order to grow and prosper as a competitive and cosmopolitan global urban entity.” — Richard Plunz

September 28, 2016

William Guynn on Film's Depiction of Historical Trauma

“Recovery of experience can be harrowing and is particularly so in films that speak about traumatic events in the catastrophic twentieth century. All the films evoke unresolved historical situations—unresolved for the communities that experienced them and for the historians who...

September 23, 2016

A Look Inside a “Conversational Firm”

Read an excerpt from an interview with Catherine J. Turco, author of THE CONVERSATIONAL FIRM: RETHINKING BUREAUCRACY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, conducted by Kara Baskin for MIT Sloan School’s Newsroom.

September 7, 2016

An Interview with Carrie Preston, author of "Learning to Kneel"

Carrie Preston discusses how Noh training shaped her book, the challenges of cross-cultural scholarship, and how modernists drew on Japanese traditions in their work.

August 31, 2016

An Interview with Jenny Davidson, author of "Reading Style"

Read our interview with Jenny Davidson about her book “Reading Style,” which is now available in paper.