Image Credit: Patrick Moreau Regina Spektor lyrics from the song “Bon idée” in SONGS. In my basement bedroom in my semi-rural, semi-arid hometown, I lie in bed all…
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FeaturedFictionFilmInterview“Life is cruel just where art is at its kindest”: A Conversation With Gabriel Blackwell
As someone who has written about Gabriel Blackwell’s work before, I feel oddly unqualified to discuss his latest, and perhaps most accomplished, book, Madeleine E. (Outpost 19). Few writers are…
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ConversationCraftFictionInterviewLiteratureTranslation“A way of belonging to the future”: A Conversation With Carmen Boullosa
It may not be evident from the questions posed below, much less whatever line they may be drawing, sinking, etc., but Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014)…
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ConversationCraftFictionInterviewLiterature“A certain shared insanity”: A Conversation With Mike Heppner
“Short stories are gems. Novels, however,” according to one of my favorite creative writing teachers, “are big bags.” Mike Heppner’s work both affirms and challenges this judgement. For while Mike’s…
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ConversationCraftInterviewLiterature“If I choose to stare the world happens to my eyes.” A Conversation With John Trefry
I owe what I know—and that appeals to me as only a little, still—of John Trefry’s novel Plats (Inside the Castle, 2014) courtesy of Michel Butor. Not that either John…
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This is the first in what I hope will be a series of not-so-erudite essays that will, for the most part, feel like listening to a drunkard talk to himself…