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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Cathy Ulrich
by Katharine Coldiron September 24, 2019Follow 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Melissa Duclos
by Katharine Coldiron August 14, 2019When 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Bethany C. Morrow
by Katharine Coldiron May 24, 2019In 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with George Choundas
by Katharine Coldiron April 29, 2019In 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Erika T. Wurth
by Katharine Coldiron March 26, 2019I 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Anita Felicelli
by Katharine Coldiron February 26, 2019Anita 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Morris Collins
by Katharine Coldiron January 29, 2019It’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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Matt Lubchansky
by Katharine Coldiron November 16, 2018I 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Litsa Dremousis
by Katharine Coldiron October 23, 2018I’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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Amy Pence
by Katharine Coldiron September 20, 2018All 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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Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Kelcey Parker Ervick
by Katharine Coldiron August 28, 2018I 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…