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In this 2017 interview, Rabih Alameddine discusses the themes and motifs present in his novel The Angel of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016), which won the 2017 Arab American Book Award in fiction and the 2017 Lambda Award for Gay Fiction, with poet Kamelya Omayma Youssef for the Arab American National Museum.
“If you’ve got a better plan for me, tell me. I’ll try it.” Paul Dano makes his directorial debut with this film adaptation of Richard Ford’s novel Wildlife (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990) about a teenager in 1960 witnessing his parents and their marriage falling apart. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, and Ed Oxenbould, the screenplay was cowritten by Dano and Zoe Kazan.
“I was thinking what would happen if someone was as much of a recluse as I am, maybe more, but is not a writer?” Rabih Alameddine talks about writer and artist Bruno Schultz, the idea of a necessary person, and the inspiration behind his novel An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press, 2013). Alameddine won the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his novel The Angel of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016).
Dani Shapiro, the author of five novels and the best-selling memoirs Slow Motion and Devotion, reads from her new book for writers, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013).
