interview

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…

Josh Denslow’s Not Everyone Is Special has been been out since the end of March. It’s great. You should read it. I think we started this conversation in February. Today…

From line cook to print editor to YouTube sensation, Molly Baz is well known for her delicious recipes and humorous abbreviations (see: Cae Sal). As Senior Associate Food Editor atBon…

Dean Rader’s debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble…

It’s assbutt cold in gloomy Massachusetts right now. I can’t feel my bony little digits on the regular, even after receiving a lovely pair of new gloves as a gift.…

Probably, objectively, eating a nutritious, well-balanced diet is going to make you feel–if not better–not worse? But also, the main reason to eat actual food as opposed to nutrition pellets…

Becca Clason is tactile lettering artist based near Salt Lake City, Utah. With her husband, Josh Clason, Becca runs a stop-motion and live-action lettering studio, working with brands and ad…

Jimin Han’s A Small Revolution was one of the most interesting and thoughtful novels of 2017. When I wrote my review last year, I described it as “a timely novel…

  The Doctor Who that author Justin Richards fell in love with in 1963 was, as many emerging fans had intuited, profoundly empathetic. Though his personality initially may have sometimes…

This past spring I came across Megan Kruse’s novel, Call Me Home (published last year by Hawthorne Books). I read its description online and thought it might be something I’d…

Back in 2011, Jordan Rennert and Patrick Meaney pitched the idea of making a documentary on the writer Neil Gaiman. Their production company Respect Films had done documentaries on cult…

* * * Ciriza is a multi disciplinary artist who cares a great deal about unearthing dark matter for transformation. She works in a variety of mediums- music, performance, drawing,…

Early in 2016, I heard the creators of Book Fight!, Tom McAllister and Mike Ingram speak on a panel about producing podcasts. I knew Mike’s name from the excellent journal…

Broken Sleep by Bruce Bauman Other Press, 2015 656 pages – Other / Amazon   Bruce Bauman’s Broken Sleep is a titanic, post-punk mosaic of history, art, philosophy, myth, family, politics, war, peace,…