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After a four-decade career that has helped change the conversation about race and gender in America, Toni Morrison still has plenty left to say.

Interview Magazine MAY 2012

Heidi Julavits

The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits

Interview Magazine APRIL 2012

Jonathan Galassi

Jonathan Galassi finds his world.

Interview Magazine APRIL 2012

Bret Easton Ellis

One of literature's most controversial stars heads back to Los Angeles

- Interview

Benjamin Kunkel

Writer Benjamin Kunkel’s first novel, Indecision, is a trip where many questions are asked and few decisions get made

V Magazine

Edmund White

On the release of his memoir My Lives, the iconic gay writer proves he can lie down with the past and have amazing sex with the present

V Magazine 40

Joan Didion

Joan Didion chronicled the 20th century like no other American writer. Now she's starting on the 21st.

V Magazine

John Ashbery

Interview with the great living poet of the New York School

V Magazine

Jonathan Lethem

Writer Jonathan Lethem takes on new territory in his latest novel—the love and stumbles of a young California rock band

V Magazine V46

Jonathan Safran Foer

What can a 24-year-old guy barely out of college possible have to teach us about love, life, and loss?

V Magazine V17

Keith Gessen

Writer Keith Gessen's first book of fiction is the tough side of intellectual idealism

V Magazine V52

Fighting Words

Writer Moses Isegawa charts love and violence in his native Uganda one warlord at a time

V Magazine

Nate Lowman

Nate Lowman snatches bumper stickers, newspaper headlines, and photos found in the trash for aggressive art productions

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Gore Vidal

American's most unflinching biographer recalls scenes from his last forty years

- V Magazine

Martin Amis

The ultimate rogue British novelist won't stop saying what he thinks. And what he thinks about is an honest worldview.

- Interview

Norman Mailer

An interview with the ultimate American writer before they became extinct

V Magazine

Nathan Englander

Three's a charm for Nathan Englander. A quick wit may come naturally to the 42-year-old native New Yorker, but that doesn't mean he doesn't work hard.

Interview Magazine

Dennis Cooper

Speaking in tongues with Dennis Cooper.

Interview Magazine

Bret Easton Ellis reading

A review of Bret Easton Ellis's reading in Washington, D.C, in summer 2010

- Fantastic Man

Reena Spaulings

The ultimate New York novel turned on its head by Bernadette Corporation

ARTFORUM OCT2005

Rick Moody

In his latest story collection, Brooklyn writer Rick Moody envisions a terrifying landscape

V Magazine V47

Your Friends and Neighbors

They sleep right under you. Enjoy the same restaurants. Use the same street. But that's okay, because you live in their city.

V Magazine V28

Salman Rushdie

Some writers are national treasures. Salman Rushdie is an international necessity.

V Magazine

Sean Wilsey

How can a man all of 35 pen a memoir that shakes the entire city of San Francisco?

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Susan Choi

In her latest novel, writer Susan Choi tackles the explosive nature of paranoia and blame delivered Unabomber-style

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Vendela Vida

Writer Vendela Vida has a talent for getting into the minds of her subjects.

V Magazine V24

The White Album

Joan Didion's The White Album, thirty years later

- Interview