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Five Minute Interview: Ramesh Avadhani

Who are you?
It’s only when I crossed 40 that I realized I should do the thing I love the most, to write. So you could say it’s only since the last few years that I have no hesitation in calling myself a writer.
What do you write?
At the moment equal doses of fiction and nonfiction. Some […]

Five Minute Interview: Shelley Marlow

Who are you?
I am a fiction writer, visual artist, cross-dresser, palm reader, cook, and traveler of inner and outer worlds. When you travel to spots like Siberia and pack a sex toy in your luggage, you have to be prepared. The woman gate officer in Kyzyl waved my magic wand in the air and asked […]

Friday’s Five Minute Interview: Steve Kane

1. Who are you?
I find that I have less idea what the answer to this question is as I get older. No wonder people go senile and forget everything. Actually, I’m looking forward to forgetting who I am and everything about my life; sounds like bliss.
2. What do you write?
Very little because I am an […]

Friday’s Five Minute Interview: Myfanwy Collins

1. Who are you?
To be honest, I’m not entirely sure. I am a Canadian who has live most of her life in the United States. So I figure this makes me North American. I am a daughter and a sister and a wife and an Aunt I am hopeful to one day be a mother. […]

Mid-Week Five Minute Interview: Xujun Eberlein

1. Who are you?

A good question. In essence I’m a person of conflicts, and a writer who involuntarily creates conflicts. The list of my personal conflicts is too long for a minute. For the latter I’ll give one recent example: A few weeks ago my website www.xujuneberlein.com went live, and the very first web contact […]

Friday’s Five Minute Interview: Roger Morris

1. Who are you?
Roger Morris. Oh shit. I’m supposed to spend at least one minute answering this? My name* alone is not enough then? You want something a bit more profound, philosophical, existential, at the very least, insightful? Something a bit more revealing perhaps? The local paper (Crouch End and Muswell Hill Times) described me […]

Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides

Teiresias in Detroit
by Kathryn Koromilas
[Published in Greece Now, January 2003 ]
Jeffrey Eugenides’ second novel is just about your average Greek-American hermaphrodite
Jeffrey Eugenides hit the literary big time in 1993 with his slim but peculiar debut The Virgin Suicides. Heavyweight New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani remarked that Eugenides tale of five beautiful but unhappy sisters […]