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A (Brief Wondrous) Interview with Junot Diaz

by Max Ross
posted on Oct. 24, 2008 - 2:52pm

It would almost be redundant – and probably pitiful, too – to try and summarize The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in a single, obligatory paragraph that precedes an interview with its author, Junot Diaz. The book, which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is deserving of long, in-depth coverage.

No One Tells Everything

by Max Ross
posted on Oct. 08, 2008 - 8:53am

Charles is a murderer, imprisoned for killing a female college student in suburban New York. Grace is a copy-editor for a Long Island magazine. Maybe it's the sensationalism of his crime, maybe it's her own loneliness, but before long Grace becomes obsessed with Charles' story. So she starts writing to him. And then talks to him on the phone. And then...

Prescription? Perspective.

by Max Ross
posted on Sep. 22, 2008 - 6:48pm

After a long night in an Albuquerque emergency room where two young gang members died of stab wounds, Dr. David Sklar arrived at home to find his living room full of packed-up cardboard boxes. His wife was leaving him.

On the verge of burn-out and a personal crisis, Sklar returned to the place where he first decided to become a doctor: Mexico.

A Rakish Interview with Minnesotan(-by-Proxy) Author Bart Schneider

by Max Ross
posted on Aug. 04, 2008 - 5:26pm

This is Minnesota. There's Café Barbette, there's Galactic Pizza, there's the Armajani Bridge stretching from the Sculpture Garden to Loring Park. Except really it's a month from now, the Republican National Convention is in town, and there's a right-wing/neo-Nazi plot underway to kill three Jewish abortion doctors.

A Rakish Interview with Darin Strauss -- Part II

by Max Ross
posted on Jul. 01, 2008 - 8:02pm

Part II (To see the first part of this interview, click here)

Ashwin Madia – the Man, the Myth, the One Democrat Who Won’t Call Michelle Bachmann Bat-Shit Crazy

by Rich Goldsmith
posted on Apr. 23, 2008 - 11:52pm

If the ongoing national embarrassment that is the Democratic primary hasn't yet caused you to gouge out your eyes with a rusty spork, you may have noticed that the local political campaign season is in full swing. And because this year's campaigns are already shaping up to be nearly as contentious as the debate over whether the spawn of Billy Ray is just penance for the Western World's sins, or if her popularity is simply a

Short Timer

by Julie Caniglia
posted on Sep. 24, 2007 - 12:00am

Walker Art Center director Kathy Halbreich might be the most admired museum director in America,” wrote Tyler Green last year on his influential Modern Art Notes blog.
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