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BOMB Magazine | Deborah Eisenberg

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In John Updike’s words, “Deborah Eisenberg writes out of a whirlwind; she has found words for sensations and emotions I have never seen described before.” Most of her stories have appeared in the New Yorker. This interview took place in her Chelsea apartment, which is lined with floor-to-ceiling books down both sides of an expansive hallway leading into a serene, spare living room filled with soft white light and little else. Craig Lucas  Did you come to New York to be an actress or anything? Deborah Eisenberg  In no way. CL  What did you come to New York to do and when did you come and from where? All I know about you is that you were born in Winnetka. DE  Yes. And strictly between you and me, neither Winnetka nor I could wait to get me out of there. And I came to New York, I suppose, to not do anything and to not be any place else. I came to be in a big city where I would just be able to live completely anonymously. I was really in a terrible state at the time. I had kind of hitchhik

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