Interviews

Below is a list of my most recent and favorite interviews I have conducted. You can find all of my work for Electric Literature here as well as all of my interviews in the Millions here. My work has also appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Writer’s Bone, and various alt-weeklies across the country. My work from my time with Paste Magazine can be found at the bottom of this page.

Also, please visit my new site Debutiful, which features interviews with debut authors as well as recommendations of debut books to read.

• Bryan Washington‘s Houston is a City of Multitudes
• Helen Oyeyemi Wants to Bewitch You
• Finally, a Novel Centered on a Black Woman Spy – an Interview with Lauren Wilkinson
• Is Iceland the Most Literary Country in the World? An interview with Sjón
  
• How Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Reinventing the Sherlock Holmes Story
  
• Whatever Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Needs the World To Do, He Creates Something To Do It
  
• John Larison Fights the Toxic Cowboy Myth by Giving His Western a Female Hero
  
• Patrick deWitt Wants to Write Books for People Who Don’t Read Books
• Casual Creator Zander Lehmann Looks Back on Four Years of His Hulu Dramedy
  
• Dissecting a Decade-Long Writing Process with The Incendiaries Author R.O. Kwon
  
• Author Rosalie Knecht Reimagines the Spy Game with Who is Vera Kelly?
  
• A Conversation with The Great Believers Author Rebecca Makkai
  
• Made a Little Grotesque by Fiction: The Millions Interviews Lauren Groff
  
• A Mix of Paean and Elegy: The Millions Interviews Jamel Brinkley
  
• The Pleasure is in the Guilt: The Millions Interviews Lucas Mann
  
• Limerence, Lust, and Love: The Millions Interviews Melissa Broder
  
• Trixie Mattel on her Viceland show, her folk album, and winning Drag Race
  
• Original RuPaul’s Drag Race winner BeBe Zahara Benet returns to Minneapolis this weekend
  
• Inside Emily Branham‘s 12-Year Quest to Document BeBe Zahara Benet’s Rise to Drag Stardom
  
• Finding a New Language for the History of Queer Culture with Joseph Cassara
  
• How Does Tragedy Become Art? – an interview with Rachel Lyon
  
• Finding Violence in Male Friendship with Michael Nye
  
• Why Is it So Hard for Andy Weir to Follow Up on His First Success?
  
• Haunted by Ghosts: The Millions Interviews Jesmyn Ward
  
• From Convicted Murderer to Debut Author – an interview with Curtis Dawkins
  
• Speed and Crisis, with Daniel Magariel
  
• Author Boris Fishman on Immigration and Identity in Fiction
  
• The Dark Themes of Mariana Enriquez
  
• George Saunders Likes a Challenge
  
• Chanelle Benz is Rewriting History

2016 and older:

• Two Kinds of Aboutness: The Millions Interviews Michael Chabon
  
• Sudden Feeling: An Interview with Zac Farro of HalfNoise
• It’s All Very Fresh: An Interview with Hippo Campus
• I’m Not Entirely Demented: The Millions Interviews Nell Zink
• “What It Turned Into Was Really Specific”: Molly Prentiss on “Tuesday Nights in 1980”
• Literature In and On the Aftermath of Violence: An Interview with Karan Mahajan
• A Conversation with High Dive Author Jonathan Lee
• Durham Author Travis Mulhauser on His Harshly Beautiful Debut Novel, Sweetgirl
• Writing Through Grief, Unreliable Narrators, and Unlikely Structures: An Interview with Kristopher Jansma
• Garth Greenwell on Sex, Passion, and the Queer Body
• A conversation with Sari Wilson
• Every Story Is a Ghost Story: The Millions Interviews Samantha Hunt
• An Interview with Rick Moody
• A conversation with Michael Bible
• Richard Edwards on his rotted gut and a decade of rarities
• A conversation with J. Ryan Stradal
• After Happily Ever After: The Millions Interviews Michael Cunningham
  
• An Interview with Bill Clegg
• The Tortoise, Not the Hare: The Millions Interviews Angela Flournoy
  

Here are select features and interviews I did for Paste Magazine. A collection of all of my writings and reviews for the site can be found here.

• On an On: The Best of What’s Next – 12 Aug 2013
• Catching Up With Community‘s Jim Rash – 24 April 2013
• Parks and Recreation: The Story Behind TV’s Cutest Couple – 21 Feb 2013
• 30 Rock: Jack McBrayer on the Farewell Season – 11 Oct 2012
• Parenthood: Laughing Through the Tears – 8 Oct 2012
• Black Box Revelation: Belgium’s Breakout Duo – 4 Sept 2012
• Catching Up With House Creator David Shore – 24 May 2012
• Catching Up With Community‘s Yvette Nicole Brown – 20 May 2012
• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Where They Want To Be – 9 May 2012
• Workaholics Creators Talk Upcoming Season – 24 March 2012
• DC Pierson: Bad at Girls, Great at Jokes – 23 March 2012
• Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s: Fully Recovered and A Lot More Rowdy – 21 March 2012
• 10 Arizona Bands You Should Listen To Now – 8 March 2012
• Sleeper Agent: The Best of What’s Next – 21 Feb 2012
• Young the Giant’s Sameer Gadhia Talks Upcoming Tour and Second Album – 1 Feb 2012
• Is Extremely Loud the Worst-Reviewed Oscar-Nominated Movie in History? – 25 Jan 2012
• Grouplove: The Best of What’s Next – 21 Nov 2011