Columbia Journal

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Category Archives: Interviews

Elif Batuman on breadth, genre, and writing as if you’ve never read

HL Part of what I love in The Idiot is the space you give to passages in which Selin is just grasping for the solidification of her ideas. You wrote an essay in The London Review of Books in which you reckon with a big

Elif Batuman on Her New (Old) Novel, ‘The Idiot’

Elif Batuman’s The Idiot is a hilarious, poignant, and deviously wise novel, couched in the late-adolescent sensibilities of its narrator, Selin. As a freshman at Harvard in 1995, Selin is overwhelmed by her newfound freedom and its possibilities. Batuman skillfully shows how the brilliance of

Jacques Rancourt

Poetry at the Fringes! Emerging American Poets #1: Jacques Rancourt

Jia Tolentino and Puja Patel

Representation Matters. Write Until It Doesn’t. by Fajr Muhammad (Our Word, School of the Arts)

The ongoing conversation between queer writers: Garth Greenwell, on his new novel: an interview with Marcus Creaghan

John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Madelaine Lucas: a conversation with author, poet, dancer, Maggie Nelson

I am an accumulator of lots of cheap beautiful things: Dottie Lasky, poet and teacher, interviewed by Tamara MC

Questions of Faith and Writing: The Iowa International Writing Program’s Christopher Merrill interviews Author, former Priest James Carroll

Alexandra Wolfe on Overcoming Tricky Interviewees; an interview by Erin Hazelton

The joys of a novel: Jade Chang interviewed by Sarah Hoenicke

The Illegal Drug Revolution: Kayla Tanenbaum with Kevin Deutsch, author of Pill City

Tunnel Vision: no car, no love, no fun, “All so that I could write.” Chloe Caldwell interviewed by Kayla Tanenbaum