Interview by Jon Pareles “The more you hurt, the better the song is,” she told me in a 2016 New York…
Erdrich, Louise, “Tales of Burning Love” The Art of Fiction Interview with (Harper Perennial 1996)
I think I meant that grand ideas kill first efforts. Begin with something in your range. Then write it as…
Fuentes, Carlos “On Mexican Time” A New Time for Mexico (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1996)
Sun, solitude, soil. I remember a great lecture by Gaos in which he spoke of art as truth transformed by…
Fuentes, Carlos “On Mexican Time” A New Time for Mexico (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1996)
In any case, voyage and narrative are twins because both signify a displacement, an abandonment of the place, the plaza,…