Interviews

Everything is set from the first chapter. It’s the story of Calum McLean, a hitman who has to stop working solo and get into the organisation.
The threat of a steady and mandatory job, loss of freedom, questions that would concern any average worker.

David Bell lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he teaches Creative Writing. When he doesn’t write, he likes to wander around in the nearby cemetery.

After a first novel under the influence of Southern Literature and winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Hillary Jordan delivers a radically different second novel. Written as an hommage to Hawthorne’s masterpiece, When She Woke is a chilling dystopia taking place in a country where religion is the new justice.

The Middlesteins is the fourth novel published by Jami Attenberg. This funny and moving story of a Jewish dysfunctional family introduces us to Edie, the mother who is obsessed with food, Richard, her husband drifting apart, and her children, who quite don’t know how to deal with something that might lead to her demise.

Are you lucky? Do you believe in luck? If you like mystery novels, parody and San Francisco, do not hesitate to read this novel: you’ll spend a really good time. S.G. Browne’s talent should now be poached.

Murder in Memoriam is a major work of Didier Daeninckx. It allowed French people to discover that on October 17, 1961, 200 Muslims were thrown in the Seine during a peaceful demonstration organized against the colonial war that was led in Algeria at the time. The Parisian head of police was Maurice Papon, and had already made himself known during the Second World War for organizing the deportation of Jews. This mystery novel is an interesting introduction to the inspector Cadin series.

End of the seventies: Brezhnev half-opens the Iron Curtain. Thousands of Jewish families from the Eastern Bloc emigrate to Canada, to the US or to Australia. With this bittersweet family chronicle, David Bezmozgis tells the story of the Krasnansky family, who arrived in Rome after a difficult journey from Latvia, waiting for this freedom promised by the Western world.
We got to meet him in Paris and were able to ask him a few questions about this novel, which echoes his own personal story.

Where’d You Go, Bernadette is the second novel of American author and former screenwriter Maria Semple. Funny, clever, original: the novel is all that – and much more.

With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt has written a highly entertaining, funny and enjoyable revisited version of the classic western novel. We were lucky enough to meet him and ask him a few questions about this exhilarating story of two brothers on a killing mission in Oregon in 1851.

Jonathan Dee is a writer for Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine and The Paris Review. Before tackling the financial world in The Privileges, he wrote about the world of advertising and its impossible ideals. Halfway between F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Cheever, Palladio is a superb novel with a vertiginous subject.

Kjell Eriksson is a Swedish crime author espacailly known for his mystery series featuring young inspector Ann Lindell in Uppsala. Formerly a gardener, he writes about this town and its surrounding countryside, about ordinary and humble people.

Varg Veum is a former social worker for teenagers who became detective, a recurring character invented by Gunnar Staalesen.
Like Humphrey Bogart, he is waiting for a blonde girl with a veil and a tissue on her mouth to come in his office. We are glad to offer you an interview of the creator of this essential character of Norwegian mystery literature.

Nic Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans and grew up in Louisiana, on the Gulf Coast. His fiction was published in The Atlantic, The Oxford American, Poughshares, The Missouri Review, Best American Mystery Stories, as well as some other magazines. Interview with an important author.

Author of the worlwide famous novel Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk continues his exploration of trangressive fiction with Snuff, where we follow the actress Cassie Wright on her way to try to break the world record for serial fornication porn movies, on camera, with six hundred men.

Héctor Tobar is a novelist and a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times. The Barbarian Nurseries is a novel with a strong topic, well portrayed characters, a singular writing, and avoids a black and white vision of reality.

Dianne Warren is a Canadian dramatist and short story writer. Her first novel, Cool Water, was published in 2010 in Canada. It was released in the US in 2012 under the title Juliet in August. The novel won the Governor General’s Award in the bio on the site for American readers.

Interview of Gillian Flynn about her critically acclaimed third novel Gone Girl.

Brimming with barely contained passion and cruelty, the precision of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession, and the fear of failure – the Glass Room contains it all.

David Whitehouse is a journalist. He notably wrote for the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The Independent. His first novel, Bed, was translated in several languages and was published at Scribner.

Peter Doggett has been writing about popular music, the entertainment industry and social and cultural history since 1980, and is a regular contributor to Mojo, Q and GQ.