Robert Birnbaum's latest Identity Theory interview is up and running, in which he and Jim Shepard "talk about the vocabulary of music, Charles Baxter, confronting the limitations of one's own vocabulary, being in mid-career, the ambitiousness of * Project X*, Edward Jones, John Irving's confidence, what caused the Hindenburg disaster,Alan Furst, Messerschmitt 163 pilots, Himmler and science for sale, being a writer's writer, feeling lucky, Sponge Bob, living with rejection, Rachel Cohen's A Chance Meeting, the lives of artists and this and that.
Good stuff people. Have a look-see. With that we're off for the weekend, with a promise that our eagerly awaited Andrew Sean Greer interview will be Monday morning's lead story.
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