Interview

I 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…

Andrew Byrds: Right off the bat, with the title of the collection itself and with one of the first few poems, you say, “I don’t write about race. I write…

Prabda Yoon is a household name in Thailand. He has written over twenty books, translated works of Western Literature from English into Thai, designed hundreds of book covers, and written…

I’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…

I first met Divya Victor in 2014. She was tasked with giving the Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics, hosted by Small Press Traffic. Victor’s lecture was unapologetic…

Jeff Jackson is the author of Mira Corpora (2013 Two Dollar Radio) and the forth-coming novel Destroy All Monsters (2018 FSG Originals) which is being released this October. Don DeLillo…

Above featured image credited to Adrian Pijoan and Ray Ewing, Salty (The Salton Sea Monster) As a child, I would spend the days of summer vacation glued in front of…

  About a week ago I was up to nothing in particular at 3 AM while slouching over Twitter when I saw a tweet from Brian Alan Ellis asking if…

Malcolm McNeill began writing and illustrating Tetra (Stalking Horse Press) in 1977 for Gallery, a pin-up magazine. Star Wars came out that year and suddenly science fiction jumped to the…

All 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…

Nancy Au: I have such an appreciation for how you describe the human condition in Hungry Ghost Theater, as in this “meta” instance (page 59): In a moment, Piers, no…

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,…