I met Colette Sartor far from home: I was attending a writers’ group in the San Gabriel Valley, which lies on the opposite side of Los Angeles from my unfashionable…
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Follow Cathy Ulrich on Twitter, and you’ll find before long that she’s a relentless advocate for indie writers and magazines. She shares dozens of stories and poems and flash pieces…
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When I think of Melissa Duclos, I think of clichéd words like “dynamo” and “community builder.” For starters, she runs Magnify, a newsletter that spotlights small presses and the people…
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Leland Cheuk and I must have known each other much better in another life. In two years of this column, this month is the first time a writer has answered…
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In case it’s not clear from the picture above, Bethany C. Morrow is a badass. She is tough and fascinating, with fierce, well-researched opinions about a wide variety of subjects,…
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In my first year as a book critic, I read about 150 books. Of those, I remember a small handful, and regularly recommend even fewer. But George Choundas’s story collection,…
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I can’t count the number of times I’ve digitally fallen on my face in front of Erika T. Wurth. We’re friends on Facebook, and she always shares sides of life…
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Anita Felicelli is exactly the kind of woman I want on my team. She’s a writer of stories, essays, and criticism; she’s sharp and funny without being mean; she’s a…
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It’s a weird path that led me to Morris Collins, and to his exceptionally accomplished debut novel, Horse Latitudes. But how I found him stopped mattering around page 100 of…
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I first became aware of Matt Lubchansky because of this installment of their webcomic, Please Listen to Me. I didn’t understand the posture of this comic when I first read…
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I’ve admired Litsa Dremousis for some time now—for her strength, her stamina, and her unflagging support of marginalized writers. Imagine my surprise when, after I started asking her questions, I…
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All I knew about Amy Pence, when I asked her to participate in this interview, was what I’d gathered from reading and reviewing her most recent book, [It] Incandescent. My…
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I don’t remember how I came to own a copy of Kelcey Parker Ervick’s hybrid concoction, The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová, but I distinctly remember, after the first handful…
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Brad Listi is a maverick. Not in the fakey politician sense, nor in the Tom Cruise sense; I use that word because he nearly always does the unexpected thing, and…
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