Monthly Archives: October 2010

Sipping moonshine with Warren Etheredge

Posted on 10/26/2010 by Neal

I’m on the other side of the lens for a change in this recent interview with Warren Etheredge, on his cool show “The High Bar.” We sipped two kinds of moonshine I brought along and talked about NASCAR, the South, … Continue reading →

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Paris Review author interviews, now online = gift to writers

Posted on 10/23/2010 by Neal

In my basement office, among the rows of books about writing, are three well-thumbed volumes of author interviews collected from The Paris Review, whose issues have featured one or two interviews since the magazine’s founding in 1953 (by a group … Continue reading →

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My interview with author Steven Johnson

Posted on 10/11/2010 by Neal

Steven Johnson (author of “The Ghost Map” and “The Invention of Air”) visited Barnes & Noble in Seattle’s University Village last week to discuss his latest book, “Where Good Ideas Come From.” Afterward, I asked him about the routines of his … Continue reading →

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Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, on writing

Posted on 10/08/2010 by Neal

Image by Getty Images via @daylife When the 74-year-old Peruvian novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature this week, I checked The Paris Review‘s amazing online trove of archived author interviews and found a 1988 interview in which Llosa talks about … Continue reading →

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