The Lighthouse Inkwell website contains an interview with Julavits. It can be found at http://www.lighthousewriters.com/newslett/gems.htm and in it Julavits talks about her writing process, mainly in connection with her first novel, The Mineral Palace.

In an interview with Ron Hogan that can be found online at http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/julavits/ Julavits talks to the online literary magazine Beatrice about her first novel.

When asked in an interview by the publisher Virago to name her favorite book by a female author, Julavits selected Middlemarch (1872-73) and Daniel Deronda (1876), both by George Eliot. She admired both novels because they “deal with issues of marriage and the constraints of both genders in way that feels uncannily contemporary.”

The Mineral Palace (2000), Julavits's first novel, is set in Depression-Era Colorado, where Bena Jonssen moves because her physician...