QUESTIONS ASKED
Interview with Hanna Nordenhök and Saskia Vogel on Caesaria (Type Books, December 2024, virtual)
Interview with Anna Moschovakis on An Earthquake is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (Type Books, December 2024)
Interview with poupeh missaghi on Sound Museum (Type Books, November 2024)
Interview with José Henrique Bortoluci on What is Mine (Type Books, September 2024)
Interview with Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (Type Books, September 2024, virtual)
Interview with Fine Gråbøl on What Kingdom (Type Books, May 2024)
Interview with Jacqueline Feldman on On Your Feet (Type Books, April 2024, virtual)
Interview with Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries (Type Books, March 2024)
Interview with Tamara Faith Berger on Yara (Arcade, February 2024) CF: “When I think of Tamara Faith Berger, I think of words that begin with the letter S. […] Scapegoat is the big S word in Yara, but the novel contains such a robust quantity of other S words that I kept a list on the front page of my copy: squirt, suck, smash, sweat, slither, spit, slut, sex, shutter, slip, slug, scuttle, slit.”
Interview with Lauren Elkin on Art Monsters (Type Books, December 2023, virtual)
Interview with Ann Goldstein on The Forbidden Notebook, with Eloisa Morra (Type Books, March 2023, virtual)
Interview with Brian Robert Moore on A Silence Shared, with Eloisa Morra (Type Books, February 2023, virtual)
Interview with Andrea Chapela and Kelsi Vanada on The Visible Unseen (Type Books, November 2022, virtual)
Interview with Daniel Hahn on Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Type Books, May 2022, virtual)
Interview with Victoria Chang on Dear Memory (Dear Seekers Podcast, March 2022)
Interview with Amina Cain on Indelicacy (Type Books newsletter, 2020) AC: I wanted the reader to see the paintings through the process of reading, and to engage in that kind of ‘looking.’ For me, that’s part of how as a writer I might get close to something like visual art, by asking the reader to imagine and engage with (a representation of) a painting through the form of writing.”
Interview with Katie Shireen Assef on Black Forest (Columbia Journal, 2020) KA: “What I encountered in Mréjen’s books—and later, in her films and videos—was a kind of ongoingness; a patient, intent approach to writing that goes hand in hand with a deep affinity for the quotidian. There are all these continuous threads that run through her work, these themes she’s always circling—dailiness, the ephemeral, memory and its fallibility, loss, silence, the failure of language […]”
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Interview by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, “French Actor Clémenti’s Prison Memoir ‘Not a Warning, but a Wailing’” (December 2022) CF: “I like to think of translation as something more inherently accumulative, amateur, capable of stretch and stain. There’s something inside the idea of curation […] that I dislike. It nods towards the clean, the pristine, the selective—and I’m not tempted to bind these ideas to my work in translation. I’m a bookseller, too, and I also dislike the term in bookselling. I’d rather say that the books are cared about, rather than curated.”