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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“Life is cruel just where art is at its kindest”: A Conversation With Gabriel Blackwell
by Joe Milazzo August 10, 2016As 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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“A way of belonging to the future”: A Conversation With Carmen Boullosa
by Joe Milazzo June 11, 2015It 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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“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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“If I choose to stare the world happens to my eyes.” A Conversation With John Trefry
by Joe Milazzo October 21, 2014I 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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Drunk Tank – Things I Could Be Doing Instead of Writing This Novel
by Michael J Seidlinger March 26, 2014This 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…