Academe Grove: Interviews 2017-2023

Academe Grove: Interviews 2017-2023 gathers eleven interviews Yuriy Tarnawsky gave between 2017 and 2023. It is a book of talk, not fiction, and pairs with his Literary Diary 2020-2024: where the diary records his private method, the interviews are the public account of the same working years.

Tarnawsky was an unusually articulate explainer of his own practice. Across these eleven conversations he returns to the idea that organized his late fiction, that writing for him was akin to proving a theorem, to be done and done as elegantly as possible. The interview years are also the composition years of his final dilogy, Sebastian in a Dream and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, so the talk and the work were running in parallel.