That’s the beauty of fiction...it flows between the autobiographical to the fully...
The interpersonal relationships between individual characters were inseparable, in...
“My goal when I’m writing is to keep everything as real and hard and authentic as I can”: R.L. Maizes talks with Angela Mitchell about her debut collection, personal testimony, what she looks for as a fiction editor, and where we find ourselves (or not) in our stories.
“For me, this collection is very much about the effects of globalization on cultural identity, how we choose the stories worth telling, and who has the authority to tell those stories”: Donald Quist talks with Benjamin Woodard about his new collection, For Other Ghosts, out from Awst Press.
“Home, however, is the magnet with the strangest draw for Zim, and at its most basic, the novel is a story of leaving and return”: Julian Anderson on Ian Morris’s new novel.
“The great pleasure of reading is to be able to fill in and anticipate, and I want to provide that pleasure to my readers as well”: Adrian Koesters talks with Steven Wingate about Baltimore in the 1950s and writing her debut novel, Union Square.
“All the primary characters are projections of my personality, but the roaches most embody who I am”: Alice Hatcher chats with Michelle Ross about her debut novel, The Wonder That Was Ours, winner of Dzanc’s 2017 Prize for Fiction.
“Doyle isn’t simply writing a story of bad men behaving badly but rather delves deeper into the wicked minds of these men increasingly poisoning our nation on the whole”: Michael A. Ferro reviews Darrin Doyle’s new collection, Scoundrels Among Us, out 10/2 from Tortoise Books.
Alice Miller talks with Katharine Dion about her debut novel, the thorniness of sincerity, the way a poem leaps, and the crucial gift of staying alert.
“It’s no accident that I do most of my writing at the kitchen table. To me the creative process is manifested in all three things: baking, gardening, writing”: Sherrie Flick talks with Michelle Ross about flash fiction, happy endings, food, and her new collection, Thank Your Lucky Stars, out now from Autumn House Press.
“Twenty-five years ago, serious writers in Idaho were denying the [regional] label in any way they could. Today the climate has changed. One of my students complained, ‘You’re from Montana. I’m just from New Jersey and I have nothing to write about.’” Mary Clearman Blew talks with Steven Wingate about writing the West and her new novel, Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin.
“If writing is kintsugi on the page, kintsugi is the art of losing”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on returning to the writing life, her debut novel, and piecing together lives and art.
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