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…
Zoe Zolbrod’s 2016 book The Telling is the very last book on my shelf by virtue of the alphabet, but it comes near the top in my reckoning of interesting…
If I were to be invited to Terry Gross’s show on NPR, “Fresh Air”, it would be because, of course, I have finally published a book in English, not a…
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…
Rachel McLeod Kaminer: Monice! So there’s this movie coming out, Detroit, and I’m immediately hearing criticism from my little corner of the internet. I haven’t seen it. Neither have you.…
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…
DAVID MAHLER is a comic artist and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, The Suburban Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Palooka Mag and more.…
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…
There is a moment in Brad Listi’s Other People interview with David Shields (Episode 454) when Shields and Listi riff on Bill Murray anecdotes, where instantly, I wanted to sit…
In March of this year, I made the annual pilgrimage to AWP like so many emerging and established writers, educators, and publishers. While I had spent the majority of my…
VI KHI NAO: Your lack of line breaks or your internal line breaks are one of most compelling aspects of this poetry collection. Could you talk about your process with…
VI KHI NAO: What is desire to you? KRISTIN SANDERS: I feel like desire is the force that moves the whole world. It’s one of the only things I’m interested…
I was interested in Lynn’s story from the moment I met her. My father was career Navy, and she had attended the Air Force Academy with ambitions toward being…
Coco and I have been friends for maybe a decade—we don’t remember where we met but this is the nature of the Chicago community (and others, but the one I…