Powell's Books: Author InterviewsPowells.com's exclusive interviews with today's hottest authorsInterview with Lauren Groff- February 27, 2008 Lauren Groff needed four drafts and several years to discover her novel's ultimate voice and structure &151; a pastiche of letters and diaries, traditional first-person narrative, dramatic monologue, genealogical charts, old photographs and newspapers, even a Greek chorus. The Monsters of Templeton contains multitudes: literary mystery, academic comedy, ghost story, romance... Which only makes it more impressive how seamlessly the pieces fit together, and what a pleasure the novel is to...http://powells.com/partner/12/authors/laurengroff.html?utm_source=author_interviews&ut... Interview with Lydia Millet- February 12, 2008 Lydia Millet once brought three nuclear physicists back from the dead. "It's hard," Toronto's Globe and Mail admits, "to convey how invigorating Millet's fiction is." On one page she leads you to the brink of despair, and on the next she'll tickle the funny bone in your brain. She is tender and deep; and she writes assholes with flair. Also, her dialogue simply kills. We spoke about longing, Japanese cities, bears in the woods, connective tissue, and her new novel, How the Dead Dream.http://powells.com/partner/12/authors/lydiamillet.html?utm_source=author_interviews&ut... |