The Millions
Claire Vaye Watkins on Bearing Witness to Loss
The Millions offers a substantial interview with Claire Vaye Watkins that works as both author profile and craft conversation.
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Best Author Interviews
Short, excerpt-friendly posts that highlight strong author conversations and send readers back to the original source.
Discover interviews that reveal how writers think about craft, character, ambition, and the books that shaped them.
Each post offers a quick way into the conversation, then points you to the full piece at the original source.
The Creative Independent
Christopher Bollen on What It Takes to Write Novels
The Creative Independent delivers a craft-first conversation about confidence, discomfort, and the repeated work of novel writing.
Electric Literature
Clare Sestanovich on the Power of the Unanswered
Electric Literature runs a thoughtful interview about uncertainty, friendship, silence, and what a first novel can hold without over-explaining itself.
BookPage
Elaine Castillo on Reading as Investigation
Elaine Castillo gives BookPage an interview that is less promotional Q-and-A and more argument about reading, criticism, and why books matter.
The Millions
Hanya Yanagihara on Privacy and Authorial Distance
A recognizable author, a respected source, and an interview framed around mystery, privacy, and the life behind the work.
Electric Literature
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu on Tokenism and Literary Inheritance
An Electric Literature interview that opens onto publishing, identity, influence, and the kinds of coming-of-age stories literature still struggles to hold.
BOMB Magazine
Jonathan Franzen on Conflict, Art, and the Novel
A BOMB Magazine interview with the kind of authority piece that helps a new archive feel older and sturdier than it really is.
BOMB Magazine
Kate Milliken on Work, Obligation, and Finishing the Book
BOMB Magazine runs an interview that feels grounded in the lived logistics of writing, not just the romantic version of it.
BookPage
Louise Erdrich on Building a Novel Over Time
Louise Erdrich talks with BookPage about research, patience, and the long accumulation of material that finally becomes a novel.
BookPage
Nnedi Okorafor on Writing the Book That Scares You
A sharp BookPage conversation about genre boundaries, literary ambition, and why the scary idea is usually the one worth following.