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…
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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…
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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…
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InterviewLiterature“Authorship is as slippery as selfhood—we’re all coauthors of each other in some way, no?”: An Interview With Levis Keltner
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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ArtCultureFeaturedInterviewLiteratureTHE HOUSE IS ALSO BREATHING US: An Interview with Selah Saterstrom by Teresa Carmody
I’ve been reading Selah Saterstrom’s writing for thirteen years, beginning with her first novel, The Pink Institution, which I discovered in 2005, a year after it was published. I bought…
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Rachel Lyon and I first met when I took a workshop she was leading through Sackett Street Writers last year. She was a wonderful teacher and has been a sage…
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Neil Snowdon, UK resident, was introduced to me, California resident, on Facebook by a mutual Australian friend. How’s that for international connection? After I learned a little about him, I…
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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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Ariel Gore has so much to teach all of us. She thinks about art in an all-encompassing way, whether that means keeping a printing press in a spare room or…
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Rebecca Renner: In the introduction to the book, Dawn Lundy Martin says she has “long used writing about rape as an example for the unsayable.” But this is the subject…
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