When Mike Soto and I talk, we rarely talk about poetry. Especially during basketball season. But I always learn a lesson or two from Mike when the conversation does turn…
Dreams of Being is out now via Maudlin House. Andrew Byrds: This book couldn’t have come out at a better time. With a pandemic, an onslaught of political and social…
I recently had the opportunity to interview Sheila O’Connor about her most recent hybrid novel, Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions, which excavates the buried history…
Alternately mellifluous and discordant, Parker Tettleton’s This Is A City (Ravenna Press) is as much an act of listening as it is writing. Or, to put it another way, there’s…
Life of the Party is out now from CLASH Books. Andrew Byrds: Milan is presented as a city of opposites in your book, and these contradictions are explored a lot.…
Bad Poet is available for pre-order now at House of Vlad Productions. Andrew Byrds: For the first question, I wanna backpedal to our first interview. We hit the ground running…
Reading the stories in Jules Archer’s second book, Little Feasts, is like attending a dinner party where the menu features every decadent, unnerving dish you’ve always been curious but afraid…
The Elvis Machine is available for preorder now from CLASH Books. Andrew Byrds: So, the first thing I noticed in your collection was your word play and twisting language. I…
Trove: A Woman’s Search for Truth and Buried Treasure by Sandra A. Miller Brown Paper Press, September 2019 220 pages / BPP / Amazon Coming to grips with one’s…
VI KHI NAO: In preparation for this conversation, I almost made bánh xèo. But, alas, I have been very un-culinary. How is your appetite lately, Jessica? Your poetry collection enters…
I deserve to fail. I embrace that too. I will survive. It’s what I do. Over the last few months of 2019, I spoke with author Kenning JP García over…
Subcutanean releases in February 2020 and can be preordered/crowdfunded at Indiegogo. Byron Alexander Campbell: Your past work includes twitter bots, interactive fiction, generative texts, collaborative storytelling games, and whatever the…
I met Colette Sartor far from home: I was attending a writers’ group in the San Gabriel Valley, which lies on the opposite side of Los Angeles from my unfashionable…
In Abi Andrews’s book The Word for Woman Is Wilderness, nineteen-year-old Erin travels solo through Iceland, Greenland, and across Canada. Erin is smart and funny and—like many smart and funny…