Mitchel Grammaticus, from The Marriage Plot, is the protagonist of “Air Mail” (later reprinted in Fresh Complaint ). Your collection of stories, Fresh Complaint, includes an alternative ending for Middlesex, whose early chapters also appeared in magazines. The interview was conducted by email between May and October 2020.ģ Jérémy Potier: The first chapter of The Virgin Suicides was first published as a short story in The Paris Review. He has taught creative writing at both Princeton and NYU.Ģ In September 2018, Jeffrey Eugenides was a guest of the Festival America in Vincennes, France, where he kindly agreed to discuss his work with me. Eugenides is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. First published in various magazines ( The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, etc.), Jeffrey Eugenides’s short stories were collected in Fresh Complaint in 2017. The Marriage Plot (2011), his third novel to date, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His second novel, Middlesex (2002), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the French Prix Medici. It has since been translated into thirty-four languages and adapted on screen by Sofia Coppola. J.1 Jeffrey Eugenides’s debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to major critical and popular acclaim in 1993.
Gabrielle Bell on The Book of … series, her early cartoons.Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on his play Neighbors.Christine Schutt on Nightwork, her first collection.Sheila Heti on The Middle Stories, her first collection.Robinson for a Better World, his first novel Katori Hall on Hoodoo Love, her first play.Ben Lerner on The Lichtenberg Figures, his first collection.If I learned anything with The Virgin Suicides, I just learned if you keep going, you’ll figure out how to shape the thing.”īe sure to watch the previous interviews in the series: “Each book that you write, you swim a long way from the piers at a certain point-you just don’t know what’s going to happen. (An early installment appeared in the Review’s Winter 1990 issue.) “I wrote two hours every night, and on the weekends I would spend four hours,” he says. Today’s featured writer is Jeffrey Eugenides, who discusses his debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, published in 1993. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each video is a portrait of the artist as a beginner-and a look at the creative process, in all its joy, abjection, delusion, and euphoria. Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “ My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start.
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