Josh Denslow’s Not Everyone Is Special has been been out since the end of March. It’s great. You should read it. I think we started this conversation in February. Today…
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Shane Jesse Christmass has been one of the busiest writers lately. Over the past three years alone the Australian based writer has published five separate books. Three books published by…
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Jacob Singer: Gristle opens with a quote in French from Guillaume Apollinaire’s “Procession.” Can you provide a translation and its significance to this collection? Jordan Rothacker: I have a deep…
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This summer I met Joshua Byron who writes with Alfredo Franco for the brilliantly written, acted, and filmed TV show Trans Monogamist. Joshua told me that they are also a…
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Give It to the Grand Canyon is available now from Philosophical Idiot. Andrew Byrds: Your writing is very spiritual, contemplative, and it seems each sentence you put down is like…
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Aug 9–Fog is now available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Andrew Byrds: I wanna start off first by bringing up the title of this book, Aug 9—Fog. I bring this…
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ConversationInterviewLittle Streams Feeding Into the Ocean: Shane Jones on Ego, Depression, and Disappearing as a Writer
Vincent and Alice and Alice is now available from Tyrant Books. Andrew Byrds: It’s been five years from the publication of Crystal Eaters to the publication of Vincent and Alice…
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Underneath Our Skin: Anna Suarez on Sex, Healing, and the Art of Letting Go
During AWP this last March I had the pleasure of meeting Anna while hanging out with Leza from CLASH Books, we walked around downtown smoking and looking at the metro…
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ConversationInterviewAlways in Costume, Always in Their Feelings: Richard Chiem on Grief, Coping, and Being True to Your Characters
Andrew Byrds: So I’ve been doing some digging into what people are saying about King of Joy. This goes beyond just reading the blurbs on the back of my copy,…
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I met Frances Badalamenti in the summer of 2014, at a writing workshop in Portland. We were both working on book-length projects, and I was immediately struck by the electric…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewUnderneath there is a deadliness and a scary indifference: Juliet Escoria on Writing as Anti-Therapy, Routine, and Juliet the Maniac
Juliet the Maniac is now available from Melville House Andrew Byrds: Earlier on in your book, you make it a point to let the reader know this is a fictionalized…
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Mother Winter is out now from Simon & Schuster Andrew Byrds: Mother Winter cordons itself off from traditional memoirs in that rather than present your life through concrete narrative you…
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Matthew Haase: The Devil’s Gospel centers very largely around a religious cult in small town America. These kinds of cults have appeared numerous times in American history. Were there any…
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ConversationInterviewAn Inescapable Reality of Being Human: Autumn Christian on Sex, Coffee, and Being More than Horror
GIRL LIKE A BOMB comes out March 26th from Clash Books, and can be ordered here. Andrew Byrds: So you began GLAB as a means of trying something new and…
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