Interview Roundup: Cut Short by the Common Cold Edition

• New York magazine scores twice in this week's issue, talking with Nicole Krauss and deciding "she stands a better chance than most" female halves of literary couples at not being subsumed by her husband's reputation--then Q&Aing Neil Olson, the agent who's just about to see his first novel, The Icon, released. He admits his day job has "made me much too aware of what works and doesn't work. The idea that I would write purely artistically is a naïve idea."

• Refusing to wait until National Novel Writing Month rolls around again, Grant Bailie locked himself into a cubicle last Friday as he, Laurie Stone, and Ranbir Sidhu seek to create complete novels by June 4th. It's all part of a Flux Factory art project--apparently, in addition to bathroom and shower breaks, they'll also be let out on Saturday nights to read whatever they've come up with that week. No word on whether they'll be allowed to come see the panel on May 15th with Myla Goldberg and Tom Bissell, or whether any of them will get to call Harlan Ellison a wimp for being able to outpace him by about four weeks. (See Monday's NYT for
  more details.)
  
• Martha O'Connor will be showing up on this blog soon--in the meantime, the Marin Independent Journal gets her talking about her debut novel, The Bitch Posse.