Interviews
Interview with the Washington Post Express
August 13, 2007 Rife with allusions as well as foreshadowed yet satisfying surprises, The Life Room is a novel that takes on the formidable task of laying bare the interior life of a conflicted woman. Express talked to Bialosky about Anna Karenina, playing with narrative and the importance of first love. More »
Interview with Identity Theory
October 28, 2002 Robert Birnbaum interviews Jill Bialosky: "In baseball terminology you would be referred to as a triple threat: a poet, an editor, and now, a novelist. Why did it take you so long to write a novel?" More »
Interview with The East Hampton Star
May 30, 2002 "I really became a poet by happenstance," Jill Bialosky said. "I remember when I was younger, I was sort of embarrassed to tell people I was a poet." The general perception of a poet, she feared, was of "somebody who sort of sat in their room and daydreamed." There is not a lot of whiling away the time in Ms. Bialosky's life as a poet, novelist, teacher, mother, and editor at W.W. Norton and Company in New York City. On weekends, she spends time with her husband and son at their Bridgehampton getaway, all the while plumbing her experiences for material. More »