I gave a radio interview a couple of weeks ago to Jeremy Kitchen and Michael Sack on Eye 94 (105.5 FM Chicago); Jeremy has now sent me a link to a recording. For those who might have liked to listen and missed the show, the whole thing is here.

According to my publicist, I have NOT committed professional suicide.  Good to know. The whole thing here.

As so often, the interviewer has more interesting things to say than I do.  The whole thing here

Tom Bean and Luke Poling, directors of Plimpton!, have been commissioned by the Paris Review to do a series of video interviews in which writers talk about their first book.  They came up to my cottage in Vermont to talk to me back in March, and the video is now online here.  (About five hours…

Interview with Scott Gosnell, in which my shortcomings as a media personality are, like, I mean, you know, you know, you know, revealed.  Scott kindly pointed out that the podcast form gives people time to hit their stride. Hm. In any case, we talk about The Last Samurai, work in progress, Paul Graham’s great discussion…

Helen DeWitt’s personal library is on display as part of The Library Vaccine, an exhibition of six distinctive collections at Artists Space in Soho. The books, shipped from DeWitt’s home in Berlin, are exhibited on one side of the gallery. The facing wall is covered in Xeroxed passages of books in different languages, printed emails,…

One advantage of living in a pleasant and inexpensive European capital is that people want to visit you. Another, that there is access to the Internet. Neither paves the road of novel-finishing, and so the American writer Helen DeWitt decided to leave Berlin two years ago, taking with her a toothbrush and laptop. A series…

surreal in fiction here

The first time Helen DeWitt disappeared was in 2000. . . .   The whole thing here. Some qualifications on paperpools, here and here.

We conducted this interview over email last month (as the inserted images probably make clear). In bold defiance of the LARB tradition of having an absentee interviewer, I present the questions that inspired these responses, though, in the hopes of pre-disorienting the reader, detached from the provided answers. 1. Was there a time when you…