Interview

What strikes me most about the stories in Genevieve Hudson’s new collection, Pretend We Live Here (Future Tense Press, July 2018), is what I think could be described as either a willingness…

JT: Hi Hazel. I’m very excited that we get the chance to correspond about your brilliant new book Vigilance is No Orchard, just out from Nightboat. As perhaps an intro…

I don’t know if the great American short story writer Bernard Malamud is a literary figure in danger of suffering neglect or not. But I would like to believe that,…

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…

Light Magic for Dark Times is an inspired and accessible collection of practices, rituals, and spells for the modern conjurer, creator, rebel, and dreamer. You’ll map a road toward healing and…

In shimmery, lean language, Melissa Stephenson has produced a stunning memoir, Driven, which is about cars, death, life, and ultimately, momentum. It’s a book that is miraculously full of heart,…

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…

  Danielle Susi: In the introduction of the anthology, you note that you began your conversation with Nightboat in 2017, so I’m wondering how long it took to compile and…

It’s not everyday you get asked to interview a poet about a book you would have happily chosen out of a line-up. But that’s what happened when Tyler Gillespie reached…

Eileen G’Sell and I have never met in person, but we met over the internet because of a girl on a bike. At the time, she was an editor at…

About five and half years ago, I was applying to MFA programs and headed to my first AWP conference. In the airport on our way to Seattle, a friend introduced…

Marshall Moore’s new book, Inhospitable, published recently from Camphor Press and I had the chance to talk with him about ghost stories, Hong Kong, and various inspirations. A brief synopsis of the…

Curtis Smith: Congratulations on If We Had Known. I really enjoyed it. Can we start with a bit of craft talk? This is your fifth published novel. How has the…

The road I took to my conversation with Sassafras Lowrey was weird and winding. During my (brief but passionate) immersion in the backlash against Fifty Shades of Grey, I read…