The Art of Fiction No. 188 (Interviewer) Issue no. 177 Summer 2006 On sitting down to write: “It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.”
A Week in Culture: Radhika Jones, Part 2 September 2nd, 2010 This is the second installment of Jones' culture diary. Click here to read part 1. DAY FOUR Morning I put in some book requests, per last night's TLS: Tom McCarthy's new book C, which is out September 7, and his first novel, Remainder, which I me…
A Week in Culture: Radhika Jones, Editor September 1st, 2010 DAY ONE MORNING Tea and the NYT Editor's Choice on the iPad. Morning commute: F train, relatively uncrowded because it's the end of August. Reading survey reveals it's a periodical-dominated morning: the Times, the WSJ, the Metro, the Post, and tw…