#fall preview 2015

[whatchareadinbtch]

How Jonathan Franzen Became America’s Leading Public Moralist

Our foremost novelist as pundit.

[loleggodopo]

“I said to myself, ‘This feels nothing like the writing I did for 20 years — this just feels transparent.’ I wasn’t seeing in the pages any of the signs I’d taken as encouraging when I was writing The Corrections. The sentences back then had a pop. They were, you know, serious prose sentences, and I was able to vanquish my doubts simply by rereading them … [T] he sentences had a level of effulgence that left me totally defended. But here, with Freedom, I felt like, Oh my God, I just wrote however many metaphor-free pages about some weird days in the life of a college student, I have no idea if this is any good. I needed validation in a way I never had before.”

[atlantiscable]

How Kate Winslet Won a Role in Steve Jobs and Managed All That Sorkin Dialogue

She regaled us with the backstory and more during preparations for another chaotic production, a dinner party at home in England.

[arodallen]

Quentin Tarantıno on White Supremacy, Obama, and Why He Doesn’t Worry About a Transformers Future

Midway through postproduction on his eighth movie, the Western The Hateful Eight, the director discusses writing scripts by hand, ‘90s nostalgia, and becoming — relatively — mellow with time.