Questions are asked of some interesting folks:
- Dwight Garner has a quick chat with one of my favorite translators, Natasha Wimmer (she recently translated The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño)
- Powell's has some quick questions for Taylor Clark about Starbucked
- Dave Hickey is interviewed by Sheila Heti for The Believer
- Mara Naselli interviews Tara McKelvey about Monstering at Identity Theory
- LA Weekly interviews Daniel Day-Lewis and he talks of film like I think of writers who write a book, then go on tour, then write another book:
“Something that has been suggested on my behalf is that I live an almost bipolar existence, with the public life of filmmaking on one side and a sort of reclusive, almost misanthropic life on the other.” (This has been suggested most often in the British press, which has “grossly misrepresented my life,” he says.) “But it never appears to me that there’s any chasm, any rift, between those two worlds. My life to me contains both the professional and the personal very easily. But because you tend to be written about when you’re for whatever reason in the public eye, then they depict you as having left and returned.
“But it’s not a return to me. I never went away. I never left myself. I simply need the time I spend not working in films, the time away, to do the work that I love to do in the way that I love to do it.”
