“Every story begins with a feeling…And then I sit down, and try to build a house, and put that feeling inside, where it can live forever.” Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry talks with Ian Singleton about her debut collection.
“I knew I wanted the book to have one foot in the past and one in the present. It was the only way to really explore the themes that interested me, namely how much impact does the past have upon our present? “
Aida Zilelian on discovering that her novel The Legacy of Lost Things was about longing: “You know when you dream something, and you’re like, ‘I had such a weird dream,’ and as you’re saying the words out loud, you realize what the dream was actually about. When I read through the final version, I realized it then.”
