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October 22, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Kevin Barry
One of my fundamental beliefs as a writer is that human feeling doesn’t just reside in humans but it settles into places, too. Often it’s bad feeling—a melancholy, or paranoia, or fearfulness. Different places have different resonances.
October 15, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Callan Wink
This week’s story, “Breatharians,” is about a teen-age boy named August who lives on a farm. The farm’s barn has been overrun by cats—“litters begetting litters begetting litters”—and August’s father suggests that he kill...
October 12, 2012
Blog: Culture Desk
The Downfall of a British Television Icon
When the news broke last week that Jimmy Savile had been accused of abusing young teen-agers he’d met in the sixties and seventies at a school for troubled girls he would visit regularly, it was shocking but it wasn’t unbelievable. It was as if Savile’s eccentricities, his calcified public persona, his props and his catchphrases and his self-regard, were finally evidence that he’d been hiding in plain sight all along.
September 17, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid
This week’s story, “The Third-Born,” opens with a sick young boy curled up on a packed-earth floor under his mother’s cot, whimpering in pain. When did this image first come to you? The week...
July 23, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Zadie Smith
“Permission to Enter,” is, as you say, taken from your new novel, “NW,” which will be published in September. Much of the novel takes place over one spring and summer, when Natalie and Leah, now in their mid-thirties and each apparently happily married and professionally employed, both find themselves engaged in forms of secretive, potentially dangerous revolt against their domestic lives. Did you have a clear idea of the trajectory of the novel when you started working on it?
July 16, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Junot Díaz
In this week’s story, “The Cheater’s Guide to Love,” your narrator, Yunior, confronts life without his fiancée after she catches him cheating. You’ve written about infidelity in your fiction in the past, of course,...
June 19, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
Talking with Dave Eggers About “A Hologram for the King”
I recently read Dave Eggers’s new novel, “A Hologram for the King,” which is published by McSweeney’s press today. It’s set in Saudi Arabia and concerns an American businessman who’s travelled to the country...
June 11, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner
Your story this week, “The Golden Vanity,” is about a young writer, prone to anxiety and “false predicaments,” who has recently published a novel to “unexpected praise.” Afterward, he finds, “instead of the conventional...
May 30, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem
Your story in week’s Science Fiction issue, “My Internet,” is a somewhat conspiratorial account of one man’s creation of his “very, very own Internet,” a place, he tells us, that exists within an élite,...
May 29, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
This Week in Fiction: Junot Díaz
Junot Diaz’s story “Monstro” appears in this week’s special summer Science Fiction issue. He recently exchanged e-mails with Cressida Leyshon, a fiction editor at the magazine, about the story’s origins and its possible future...
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