Interview

Shelf Unbound: You’ve subtitled your book “the immigrant artist at work.” Is being an immigrant equal in weight to being an artist in terms of how you think of...

Shelf Unbound: You take a chapter in Asian American history and break it down into its human elements and stories. Which came first for you in writing the novel—the...

http://www.twodollarradio.com Shelf Unbound: The OrangeEats Creeps is a relentless existentialist nightmare told from the point of view of a nameless female hobo vampire junkie. I’ll pull out the key...

Shelf Unbound: What first planted the seed of Tinkers in your head? Paul Harding: My maternal grandfather’s stories about growing up in Maine. Like George Washington Crosby, his father...

Shelf Unbound: What was the genesis of the story “Miracle Boy”? Pinckney Benedict: “Miracle Boy” came about primarily as an evocation of a couple of terrors from my childhood....

Shelf Unbound: Why did you want to tell the story of your grandmother’s drug and alcohol addiction, given that, as you said in a recent issue of People, you...

FSG: Unlike most books, The Silent History started as an app. How was it conceived? And what were the goals of putting it out as an app? Eli Horowitz:...