October 19, 2009 – 1:42 pm
Parents: You know that 10,000th time you read your kid Go, Dog. Go! as your unfinished copy of that Anne Carson collection you really wanted to read sat on the coffee table and served as nothing but a sippy-cup coaster and a reminder of all the great writers you no longer had the time to [...]
September 25, 2009 – 2:43 pm
In celebration of Deborah Eisenberg’s recent MacArthur Fellowship, we decided to post her conversation with Anna Keesey from our interview anthology, The World Within (for you subscribers, it also appears in Tin House #34). We’ve been calling her a genius for years, and are thrilled that it’s been made official.
After thirty years on West [...]
August 27, 2009 – 2:02 pm
Now that we’ve settled on the proper cyrilic for the demonym “Russian,” we’ll continue with our series of short Q&A’s with the Rasskazy contributors. Today our interlocutor, Jeff Parker, is mostly made fun of by Oleg Zobern. Zobern is the author of Silent Jericho and Funeral Feast for Yann Volkers. His story “Bregovich’s Sixth Journey” [...]
August 19, 2009 – 1:51 pm
On September 1st we’ll be celebrating the release of our new anthology Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia. In the meantime, Jeff Parker (who co-edited the book with Mikhail Iossel) will be posting brief interviews with some of the contributors. The first conversation is with Dmitry Danilov, author of Black and Green and House [...]