Intro Wherein Thaisa Frank discusses Laurence Sterne, Samuel Johnson, and the Throne of Bolivia; Bill Lessard muses on Charles Baudelaire, pin-up; Hank Cherry lauds the realism and self-promotion of Denis…
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Intro Wherein Michael A. Ferro regales us with tales of reading anti-plotter David Foster Wallace. Chris Campanioni makes up words (a tactic I hold in high esteem) as he discusses…
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In May 2018 I was invited to give a keynote speech at a symposium held at the Literarisches Colloquium in Berlin. The broader symposium focused on the realities of African…
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Intro Wherein you will learn of David Leo Rice’s ten mental locks, Marcy Dermansky’s ability to see romance in the confluence of pierogis and roaches, how Stephen Dunn’s poetry makes…
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[T]he trained hand does not forget its skill. –Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1950 Your past is on loop turn it off see this possible future and be in it –Björk,…
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I’m changing the format here a bit. I’ll have some words on the month’s contributions at the end. For now, let us celebrate the contributors. Kerry Cohen was just on…
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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,…
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The summer I turned fourteen, my best friend Katie was in love with the chiseled lifeguard who presided over her community pool from his chair high up in the heavens.…
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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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ConversationFeaturedLiteratureCataclysm’s Open Road and Burnt Rubber: a Conversation between Jamie Townsend and Ted Rees
Jamie Townsend: Hi Ted, thanks for taking the time to talk with me. I want to start off asking you about In Brazen Fontanelle Aflame‘s relationship to Oakland specifically, but…
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet;” – Juliet, Act II, Scene II of Romeo and Juliet by William…
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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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We live in a genre-obsessed literary culture, but there have always been border-crossers among us. Some of the most powerful prose of the 19th and 20th centuries was written by…
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I remember the clarity of that day’s sky, horizon-filling and cornflower blue, the sunshine that dominated the quad beyond the windows of the university library. Which is ironic, since I…
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