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Volume 10
On Narrative
Interviews with Mary Gaitskill, Olivia Laing, Ben Lerner, Doreen St. Felix, Lynne Tillman, Brandon Taylor, Samuel R. Delany, Vivian Gornick, Lorrie Moore, Dennis Cooper, Garrett Bradley, and Rachel Kushner; with an introduction by Johanna Zwirner.
Volume 10: On Narrative
By Johanna Zwirner
“There is no more mysterious force than the act of storytelling.”
Mary Gaitskill
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“I didn’t know how to be socially, but I understood sex.”
Garrett Bradley
in conversation with Zora Simpson Casebere
“I’m most interested in making form work harder and in service of subject matter.”
Olivia Laing
in conversation with Keegan Brady
“Critique is a tool for understanding, but it’s not the end of the process.”
Ben Lerner
in conversation with Zoë Hitzig
“Like a worm or octopus, a novel can have more than one heart.”
Doreen St. Felix
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“I love the idea of following one mind as it bobs and weaves around.”
Lynne Tillman
in conversation with Sophie Poole
“I’ve never felt quite like a woman because I disobeyed.”
Brandon Taylor
in conversation with Johanna Zwirner
“People betray themselves and others all the time.”
Samuel R. Delany
in conversation with Keegan Brady
“Goethe remarked, back in the 18th century, that a man of 50 knows no more than a man of 20; they just know different things.”
Vivian Gornick
in conversation with Sophie Poole
“I am one of those feminists who concentrates on what we did accomplish rather than what we didn’t.”
Lorrie Moore
in conversation with Johanna Zwirner
“Novelists are always living in an alternative universe. One walks back and forth through a gossamer curtain.”
Dennis Cooper
in conversation with Ryan Mangione
“I was already the enemy to a lot of the activists, because I wasn’t representing gays in a positive way.”