Columbia Journal

Founded in 1977 by the students of the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts

Category Archives: Interviews

An Interview with Jia Tolentino of
The New Yorker: Part II

read Part I here ES: How does your approach differ between fiction and non-fiction? JT: Well, speaking of humor, I am an incredibly unfunny fiction writer, which is part of the reason I was never sure I would be able to write good fiction, and

Women Who Write: Taleen Mardirossian, Interviewed by Paulina Pinsky

Taleen Mardirossian sits on the beaten-in black couch in the Writing Office next to me. Having had the privilege of having her in my nonfiction workshop last spring, I have read pieces of her writing about her travels, femininity, girlhood, and both Armenian and American

An Interview with Jia Tolentino of
The New Yorker: Part I

Jesse Sheidlower on profanity, cocktails, and the old practice of new words

photo cred: Bustle

Jeannie Vanasco on writing a memoir, sticking to your vision, and her three-legged cats by Daphne Palasi Andreades

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

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

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