Our very own Francine Prose is interviewed at The Atlantic Monthly’s site, talking about her latest, Reading Like a Writer. A lot of time is spent on the many frustrations and occasional joys of teaching, the benefits and perils of MFA programs, and the state of the literary culture:
I will say one thing. For one reason or another, I get sent a lot of new books. I don’t know what they’re hoping—reviews or blurbs I guess. So I see a lot of what’s being published. And plenty of it is pretty dull. But quite a bit of it is actually really interesting. Every so often you hear these gloomy predictions about the death of the novel or the death of fiction and the end of literary culture, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, my friend the novelist Richard Price said the novel will be around at our funeral. And I think he’s right; it’s alive and well.
