In Leni Zumas’s new novel, Red Clocks (Little, Brown), abortion is once again illegal in America, in vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty,…
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ConversationFeaturedFictionInterview“Until the deep past and the present are able to touch”: A Conversation with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
In reading over Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint’s gracious responses to my (typically trying-too-hard) questions about her fine debut novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife,…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewChopping Block: Bud Smith on Writer’s Block, The Tortured Artist, and Making Good Art
Hello, and welcome to the inaugural article of Chopping Block–a new interview series dealing with writer’s block and all everything it entails. The idea came about here following a discussion…
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On Hell is out on Sator Press, February 14, 2018. Johanna Hedva: Dan! I’m so happy we get to do this together for On Hell. You’ve been privy to the…
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VI KHI NAO: On page 46 of your Indictus, you wrote, “When I examine the memories that broke me, I torture my question.” How do you desire me to interview…
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Featured Photo Credit: Chris Beckman To celebrate the release of Montreux Rotholtz’s debut collection, Unmark (Burnside Review Books, 2017), she and fellow poet Kallie Falandays (whose first book, Dovetail…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewLanguagePoetryInterview with Andrew Wessels, writer of A Turkish Dictionary, 1913 Press
[Images Provided by Andrew Wessels] In Andrew Wessels’ A Turkish Dictionary, Istanbul is a palimpsest on which the writer seeks to trace the marks left behind—the umbral residue of displaced…
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VI KHI NAO: On page 20, you wrote, “K says being in love is radical” – what do you think K means by this? LIZ BOWEN: This was taken from…
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1 Meeting I have frequented a myriad of gyms for over a decade, and never have I been so immediately struck by another patron as I was by Houdah Abotteen…
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ConversationFeaturedFictionInterview“Look at grace head on and it was never there”: A Conversation with Paul Cohen
Appropriately enough, I finished reading Paul Cohen’s The Glamshack in the middle of a heatwave that temporarily turned Eugene, Oregon into Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I had traveled to…
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Image credit: Oh My Disney Twenty years ago, in the summer of 1997, McDonalds released a series of plastic plates to go with their Happy Meals, plates with the likes…
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It would be wise, I think, to keep these introductory comments brief. Steve Erickson’s innovative, eloquent, and downright visionary fiction has been inspiring other storytellers* for over 30 years. His…
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Marcus Slease’s latest book, Play Yr Kardz Right, will come out in August with the British small press Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Tim Atkins has called these poems “gentle & generous engagements…
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When reading Catherine Theis’ poetry, I’m frequently reminded of Godard’s 1963 film Contempt. As with that movie, Theis is interested in the way in which the classical Greco-Roman world (its…
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