Jonathan Dee (born 1962) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. His fifth novel, "The Privileges", was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Read full biography of Jonathan Dee →
'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other studies. I would go... →
Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for... →
Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is... →
I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not... →
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became... →
I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem... →
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the... →
It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You... →
It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're... →
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most... →
That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative... →
The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend... →
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on... →
Jonathan Dee (born 1962) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. His fifth novel, "The Privileges", was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.