SHORT STORIES: INTERVIEW WITH EUGENIA RICO

Do you like reading short stories? I loooove them! Eugenia Rico has really good ones too.

Here's an interview with her with some interesting thoughts on the genre, such as this one:

"El cuento es literatura en estado puro. El cuento es como un relámpago que ilumina la noche y nos deja recordando lo que vimos con los ojos cerrados. El cuento es una historia que comienza a suceder en tu cabeza en el mismo momento en que se termina su última página."

ALAN BENNETT "I've often wanted to be bolder"

You know how I was telling you about Smut? Here's a comment taken from an interview published in the Guardian (click here to read it) where he talks about one of the stories published in the book.

Never more so than in the beautiful and filthy short story, The Greening of Mrs Donaldson, written for a recent edition of the London Review of Books. Mrs Donaldson, a widow in her late 50s, has a part-time job at a medical school acting out cases to the students to test their diagnostic skills. She takes in two students as lodgers, and when they run short of rent money they suggest a lubricious transaction that involves voyeurism, a threesome of sorts and sado-masochism.

Interview with Cormac Mccarthy

In his first television interview ever, Cormac Mccarthy sits down with Ophra at the Santa Fe Institute to talk about his theories on writing. He admits that his Pulitzer-prize-winning novel, The Road, is a love story to his son and that he is still aiming for perfection. Meet the author of All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men and a lifetime of extraordinary novels:

http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Ophras-Exclusive-Interview-with-Cormac-Mccarthy-Video

Interview with Paul Auster on NPR.

Follow this link to hear Paul Auster speaking about his Brooklyn Follies on NPR (National Public Radio).