From the Archives: Leah Falk talks with A. Van Jordan about his fourth poetry collection, The Cineaste, his intentions for this new work, and what’s changed about the way we go to the movies.
The optimism and nostalgia we sometimes associate with a certain narrative of American immigration—the golden door—are banished by these writers’ sharp, sober observations.
“Anthony Doerr is given to what we might call the extended-play short story: instead of hours or days, years go by”: Leah Falk considers the expansiveness of Anthony Doerr’s short story “The Caretaker.”
Laura Kasischke on the virtues and difficulties of the poetry-like short story collection.
Is this real or is this a late-night re-run? Hester Kaplan’s characters navigate past traumas, has-been TV-stars, and small town casinos.
