November 15, 2016
Failing to Sell My First Book
Between my retail day job, my social life and hustling for freelance writing gigs, it took a full year to write my first nonfiction book proposal. It was sixty-eight pages […]
July 27, 2012
The matter of the word: a conversation with Peter Koch
The sleepy, industrial building on Berkeley’s 4th St. in which the Codex Foundation resides belies the international significance of its residents. Were it not for one meek sign, I might’ve […]
June 6, 2012
The Dorothy project: An interview with Danielle Dutton
Just out today on the Kenyon Review Online is Elaine Bleakney’s review of two novels by Renee Gladman, Event Factory and The Ravickians. Both novels were published by Dorothy, a […]
February 25, 2012
Translation and money laundering
A friend just sent me a link to this excellent interview at the Loggernaut reading series (dateless, it seems, and also timeless?) with Ammiel Alcalay—author, most recently, of “neither wit […]