At the Mercy of the Bat.

One of the first stops on the All Over tour was New York, and one of the first projects there was a sit-down with Ed Champion, he of the infamous Bat Segundo Show. Great questions over great sandwiches: a hard combination to beat. And the results are now up for your listening pleasure right here.

November 30, 2007, 1:14 p.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, History, Interviews

Interview at Inside Higher Ed.

Columnist, writer, poet, friend and fellow McSweeney's dispatcher John Griswold on the mound. Me at the plate. Here comes the heat.

October 10, 2007, 6:35 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Food, History, Interviews, Novellas

Zulkey.com

A very fun interview just went up here, courtesy of Claire Zulkey. She let me talk about kids' books, Very Bad Poems, and dark chocolate. That's just win-win-win right there.

September 1, 2007, 10:08 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Interviews, Novellas

Map.

Julie Sisk, the editor of Map Magazine out of Nanjing, takes her best shot at me in the latest issue. Most of the interview deals with the new cultural/historical guide to the city that I just wrote, but the questions branch out from there.

June 28, 2007, 8:21 p.m.Categories: China, History, Interviews, Nonfiction, Travel