Literature Interviews - The Talks

Emerging Masters

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Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis“You can’t lie anymore”

Charles Yu

Charles Yu“Reality is taking notes from fiction”

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk“You can’t just be a spectator”

Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead“All our former selves are still there”

Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane“It’s a question of interest”

Don Winslow

Don Winslow“I like being scorned”

Gabriela Garcia

Gabriela Garcia“There are pieces of me in everything”

Irvine Welsh“Failure is more interesting”

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem“Be a dark horse!”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer“You have to waste a lot to have a little”

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro“I’ll take as long as I need”

Lily King

Lily King“You don’t know until you start writing”

Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde“I never start with a message”

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby“You can wait forever for the muse”

Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner“There’s this lens over life”

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie“The curse of an interesting life”

Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti“My life only changes when a book is done”

Stewart O’Nan

Stewart O’Nan“It’s not just dots on a page”

T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle“We are animals”

Yann Martel“You have to open yourself”