Interviews
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April 15, 2014 |
A Conversation with Don Bartlett A bookshop in Stavanger, Norway. Photo by Marie Guillaumet/Flickr In Norway, many bookstores carry a wide variety of translated fiction, noticea... -
March 18, 2014 |
New Vessel Press recently released The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov’s scathing satire from Moldova. Born and currently living in Moldova, Lorchenkov is a laureate of Russia’s... -
January 7, 2014 |
Photo Flickr/Latvian Foreign Ministry A Poem by Inga Ābele what are you my beloved night pragmatistdarkness in ringswine and an an... -
December 12, 2013 |
A Q&A with Deji Olukotun See the full interactive infographics at PEN.org. Deji Olukotun is PEN’s inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, and he’s helping to lay a universal foundation at all PEN... -
October 30, 2013 |
Sana Sood is an Indian American woman living in Washington, D.C. Growing up in India, Sood has always been very close to her culture and to its religious holidays. In order to expose her baby boy... -
October 28, 2013 |
Joshua Safran Writer, lawyer, and occasional rabbi Joshua Safran’s new book, Free Spirit: Growing up on the Road and off the Grid, chronicles a childhood spent on the r... -
October 16, 2013 |
Jane Hirshfield and Donald Hall at the Hall-Kenyon Prize ceremony (Concord, New Hampshire, October 24, 2012) This interview was first conducted on October 24, 2012, at the Concord Public Library in C... -
September 16, 2013 |
A Conversation with Chuck Beard With independent bookstores closing even in those cities where they typically thrive, opening a new bookstore is an act of bravery, perhaps even faith. When Chuck... -
September 11, 2013 |
Photo: Evoking Magritte by sleepyneko/Flickr In June I went for my interview with Latvian writer Jānis Einfelds accompanied by Sigma Ankrava, professor in the Department of Literature and Culture... -
August 6, 2013 |
A Conversation with Peter Orner Today marks the release of Peter Orner’s second short-story collection, Last Car over the Sagamore Bridge. (This collection includes a s... -
June 25, 2013 |
A Conversation with Boris Dralyuk I recently interviewed Boris Dralyuk, translator of A Slap in the Face: Four Russian Futurist Manifestos (now on pre-sale from Insert Blanc Press), about fu... -
June 20, 2013 |
Photo: Annie Atkins Last Christmas Day, NPR ran a story about the preeminence of the book among Christmas gifts in Iceland. In a country that has the most books per capita in the world, publishers re... -
May 15, 2013 |New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim
Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis Karim Perhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the lat... -
April 29, 2013 |
Ben Myers and his newest book Lapse Americana April means tax stresses and spring, whether for you spring involves heavy snowfall or seasonal allergies. But in the U.S. April is also nationa... -
April 9, 2013 |
A Q&A with Translator Karla Gruodis This month, Guernica will publish A Small Map of Experience: Reflections and Aphorisms by Lithuanian writer Leonidas Donskis, a philosopher, cultural c... -
March 5, 2013 |
Illustration by Jen Rickard On March 13 fiction star Amelia Gray will perform in Boston at the seven-year anniversary of the raucous phenomenon known as the Literary Death Match, a monthly competitio... -
July 1, 2012 |
The July issue of World Literature Today will go live next week with new, exciting web exclusives including a full video interview with Irish playwright Marina Carr. As a primer to the releas...
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