INTERVIEW

Cory Doctorow defies simple classification as a writer. Though he has helped to reshape the face of science fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century with such groundbreaking novels as Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother (reviewed here by Elizabeth Anne Hull), and Makers (reviewed here), he has left an equally profound impression on the Internet, both in his role as cofounder and editor of BoingBoing.net and as an advocate for Internet freedom. On the cusp of the release of his second young-adult novel, For the Win (Tor, forthcoming in May 2010), WLT associate contributing editor Rob Vollmar sat down with Doctorow in March 2010 to talk about the big issues that face literature today: the relevance of print and the permanence of digital media, how an evolving media landscape is shaping the writer's process, and the tangled relationship between copyright reform and Internet freedoms.

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