Tim Powers est en interview ici pour parler de son roman Parmi les Tombes. 

Extrait : 
"Hide Me Among the Graves is a historical fantasy set in Victorian London starring, among others, the Rossetti family. I know from other interviews you’ve done — the Speculate! one with Brad Beaulieu and Greg Wilson in particular — that you do meticulous research. Do you have a set research routine? 
Tim Powers : My research generally starts with something I stumble across in plain old recreational reading. I’ll be reading a biography of Charles Lindbergh, for instance, or an account of people climbing Mount Everest, or a description of the social life of bees, and some detail will suggest part of a possible story plot. If I run into two or three such, I decide that this is not recreation al reading after all, and I’ll dig up and read everything I can get my hands on that concerns, as it might be, bees; and if sideline topics suggest themselves (if an inordinate number of beekeepers retire to New Zealand, say) then I read everything I can find on that. All the while I’m looking for the sort of odd details I think of as “things too cool not to use.” And after I’ve got twenty or thirty of that sort of details, the challenge is to connect the dots! 

Two rules of thumb I always use in assessing these odd bits and pieces are: Nothing is a coincidence — if two things happened on the same day, or in the same place, they’re connected; and, What were they up to really? — what unreported and ideally-supernatural factor could just as plausibly — or ideally even more plausibly — account for what the historical characters did?"