Suspend Your Disbelief

Philip Graham

Contributing Editor

Philip Graham is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Interior Design: Stories, and The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Editor-at-Large of the literary/arts journal Ninth Letter, and a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review.


Articles

Interviews |

The Trickster Answers So Many Questions: An Interview with Rosalie Morales Kearns

From the Archives: Philip Graham speaks with his former student Rosalie Morales Kearns about her debut collection, as well as how to enter different points of view, the legacy of colonialism in Caribbean history and Caribbean literature, and why the trickster answers so many questions.


Interviews |

The Reason to Persist: An Interview with John Warner, Part I

John Warner talks to Philip Graham about giving his characters an extra graceful breath: “I see mankind basically as a pestilence, bent on destroying each other and the Earth itself. . . And yet, sometimes we can break free of our monstrousness and be genuinely good and kind.”


Interviews |

It’s the Act of Storytelling that Redeems: An Interview with Bryan Furuness

“Here’s a theory: To be a kid with a live mind is to be deluded and self-involved, but also curious and evolving at hyperspeed. To be insightful in surprising ways, totally off base in other ways, but never afraid to make sweeping pronouncements, like a little de Tocqueville in the Land of Adults.” Philip Graham talks with Bryan Furuness about his novel The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson.