And here I sit, wearing my GCC t-shirt, drinking coffee from my GCC mug, thinking, Reading Swag is the best swag of all.
Many thanks to everyone at GCCs Batavia and Medina for turning Monday into such a good thing. Special thanks to my old friend Tracy Ford for causing the ball to begin rolling months ago, and for prodding it onward so consistently and well. And lastly, congratulations to the students: your questions were superb, and I thank you for them.
April 29, 2009, 8:31 a.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Interviews, Short Stories
will be in Chicago for the upcoming AWP conference, by all means track me down.
January 30, 2009, 11:03 a.m.Categories: Interviews, Litmags, Nonfiction, Short Stories, Travel
Steve Morison's kind profile (partly about me, partly about Zhang Lijia, all in the context of the Beijing expat writers scene) just showed up in Poets & Writers. This kind of thing is Morison's forte--he's also done articles about Kabul and Tangiers (if I remember right, he was the last known person to interview Paul Bowles), and was in Myanmar researching something similar when the typhoon hit.
April 16, 2008, 12:44 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Interviews, Travel
Tonight begins a week of events--panel discussions, readings and signings, a cabaret--at The Bookworm here in Beijing. I'll be there this evening to serve as moderator for Adam Williams and Qiu Xiaolong, and will return on March 8th as part of the launch for Beijing: Portrait of a City, and then again on the 9th to talk about moral ambiguity in fiction with Nicholas Jose and Edward Ragg.
March 6, 2008, 10:54 a.m.Categories: China, Interviews, Novels, Translation
Xiaowei Su first interviewed me about a year and a half ago, right after Nothing in the World came out, and we recently went another round over All Over. The results are right here for your listening pleasure.
January 4, 2008, 12:02 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Interviews, Short Stories
One of the first stops on the All Over tour was New York, and one of the first projects there was a sit-down with Ed Champion, he of the infamous Bat Segundo Show. Great questions over great sandwiches: a hard combination to beat. And the results are now up for your listening pleasure right here.
November 30, 2007, 1:14 p.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, History, Interviews
Columnist, writer, poet, friend and fellow McSweeney's dispatcher John Griswold on the mound. Me at the plate. Here comes the heat.
October 10, 2007, 6:35 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Food, History, Interviews, Novellas
A very fun interview just went up here, courtesy of Claire Zulkey. She let me talk about kids' books, Very Bad Poems, and dark chocolate. That's just win-win-win right there.
September 1, 2007, 10:08 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Interviews, Novellas
Julie Sisk, the editor of Map Magazine out of Nanjing, takes her best shot at me in the latest issue. Most of the interview deals with the new cultural/historical guide to the city that I just wrote, but the questions branch out from there.
June 28, 2007, 8:21 p.m.Categories: China, History, Interviews, Nonfiction, Travel
I wish I could tell you that I was punk rock. I wish I could tell you I wore the right boots and shaved my head with the right razor and knew all the lyrics. Sadly, I cannot in clear conscience tell you this. The good news is they let me go to their concerts anyway, and Punk Planet even let Elizabeth Crane interview me, which was excellent fun.
(Damn. See what I mean? If you use phrases like 'excellent fun,' you cannot be punk rock no matter how bad you want it.)
November 24, 2006, 4:39 p.m.Categories: Interviews, Novellas, Short Stories
