Interviews

10 Questions with 'Starling' Author Sage Stossel

February 3rd, 2014

Photo: Michael Callaghan / Penguin Sage Stossel seems to have it all: a career with The Atlantic, filling roles as both an editor and cartoonist; a successful graphic novel called Starling (LitReactor's review); access to great bookstores in Harvard Square. Seriously, it leaves many of us drooling in envy

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Ten More Questions with 'The Moment Before' Author, Suzy Vitello

January 21st, 2014

As 2013 came to a close we interviewed in-demand LitReactor instructor, editor, author, and "den mother" of Portland's most distinguished writing group, Suzy Vitello, about her soon to be released YA novel, The Moment Before.

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10 Questions with 'True Detective' Creator Nic Pizzolatto

January 10th, 2014

What more can I say about True Detective that hasn’t already been said? Chances are you’ve read the reviews of the Matthew Mcconaughey/Woody Harrelson fronted HBO crime drama in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, etc. Chances are you’ve seen Mcconaughey making the rounds on the talk show circuit touting the show and its creator, novelist Nic Pizzolatto.

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10 Questions with 'The Moment Before' Author and LitReactor Instructor, Suzy Vitello

December 26th, 2013

Maybe you first saw Suzy Vitello's name in the acknowledgement section of any number of Chuck Palahniuk books. Perhaps you read about the "den mother" of "the hottest writing group in Portland" a few years ago in The Oregonian. Or, maybe you first learned of Suzy here on LitReactor when you took one of her in-demand writing workshops. 

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10 Questions with Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Books and Kindle at Amazon.com

December 6th, 2013

If the 15th century was the Age of Discovery and the 19th century was the Age of Empire, future generations will likely look back on the 2000s and dub this period the Age of Big Faceless Corporations. Google, Microsoft, Apple and Twitter: our lives are shaped and directed by these amorphous and impersonal entities, and possibly the most notoriously amorphous and impersonal of them all is Amazon.

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10 Questions With 'Blade of Dishonor' Author Thomas Pluck

December 2nd, 2013

Thomas Pluck is the kind of guy you think maybe you should cross the street to avoid. He looks like he could pick a person up with one hand and snap them in half. Then you meet him, and find that he's warm and soft-spoken and funny. He's also a hell of writer. 

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10 Questions with James Sallis

November 5th, 2013

Photo via flickeringmyth.com James Sallis, first and foremost, is a man of many talents. We all know that Sallis is one of crime fiction's premier stylists, a storyteller who has constantly challenged the often constrictive devices of the genre and turned them on their heads with his sparsely poetic, innovative  prose.

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10 Questions With 'Love is the Law' Author Nick Mamatas

November 4th, 2013

Like Dawn Seigler, the first-person protagonist of Love is the Law, Nick Mamatas is a fucking genius. He’s also had just about every gig you can imagine in the writing/publishing world. When he’s not writing novels, short stories, how-to books on writing or insulting people, he edits the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for VIZ Media. Once upon a time he might’ve written your term paper if you were too lazy or not bright enough to write it yourself.

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10 Questions With Johnny Shaw

October 2nd, 2013

Last year we brought on Johnny Shaw to teach a class covering the hardest part of the writing process: Rewriting.

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10 Questions with Lee Child

September 18th, 2013

Photo by Sigrid Estrada Lee Child is, like his style, nothing if not minimalist, reflected in his spare Lower Manhattan office (filled with maps and research books) and his appetite (like a bird’s). He seems to survive on a diet of strong black coffee, cigarettes, and pot, which he recently confessed to smoking nightly. His laconic, deliberate way of speaking is belied by a wide-ranging and fierce intelligence—never more acute than when he’s discussing the craft of writing, the nature of stories, and the perilous publishing business.

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