Interviews

An English mathematician reader (Daniel J. Woodhouse) now living in Austria sent me questions about Goodreads, Thomas Bernhard, and publishing in general. I responded thusly, posted October 11, 2023.

A long audio interview available via the Melbourne-based podcast Beyond the Zero, posted July 13, 2023. Available at Apple, Spotify, and whenever else you get your podcasts.

During the first few months of Global Pandemic Quarantine 2020, Bidwell Hollow and Fear No Lit interviewed me about Neutral Evil ))).

On July 27, 2016, Cleaver Magazine posted Nathaniel Popkin’s interview with me about translating Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador.

Two quotations that appeared in this interview on Vice also appear on interstitial pages (ie, black pages separating proper essays) in the collection of essays, MFA vs NYC published by n + 1 in February 2014. I wrote about it here.

On October 3, 2014, the Brooklyn Rail ran this interview with writer friend Matthew Vollmer — we talk about both books and the old grad school experience, among other things. And then a few days later Book Fight posted its first live podcast on which you can hear me lisping and slurring at some point exactly 49 minutes into it (I recommend listening to the whole thing, of course).

Way back on May 28, 2004, Identity Theory posted James Stegall’s long IM interview with me about Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World.

And even further back (February 28, 2003), here’s an interview with Claire Zulkey about Eyeshot and other stuff.