Interview Roundup: Millet, Waxman, Ishiguro
(Not Every Headline Can Be Brilliant, You Know)

Joshua Glenn (Boston Globe) emails back and forth with Lydia Millet (who I heard read last month) about Everyone's Pretty, which gloriously fulfills her belief that "so-called sympathetic characters are vastly overrated.... I like complex and multiply flawed characters partly because really most of us are them--most of us are not Barbies and Kens but Shreks."

Sharon Waxman gets the Mediabistro spotlight, offering Jill Singer a reminder that Rebels on the Backlot isn't meant to be your typical Hollywood tell-all:

"The models I had in mind were really the great foreign correspondents' books that I had read and loved over my whole career, whether it's David Halberstam's fantastic books about the '60s and Vietnam or Tom Friedman's book about the Middle East. Those were the books that I loved as a young journalist coming up, so I tried my best to do that kind of a book in the entertainment world."

To be honest, this interview wasn't quite as engrossing as last month's Forward profile, as Gabriel Sanders seems to have gotten Waxman to open up about herself a teeny bit more. Christina Patterson (The Independent) elicits similar responses from Kazuo Ishiguro--not surprising since they grew up in the same town.