“The novel’s primary storyline begins approximately where Mawer’s last novel, Trapeze (Other Press, 2012), left off. Marian, who in Trapeze parachuted into occupied France as an undercover agent, is now returning to England at the end of World War II.”
“I’m curious as to how I can push a reader away from a character but still have them rooting for him or her”: Robert James Russell chats with Nina Buckless about his new novel, Mesilla (Dock Street Press).
“I think that this was a moment where I had to figure out, what’s the book?”: Stephen Schottenfeld answers Ralph Black’s questions about Bluff City Pawn, his debut novel.
Lynette D’Amico talks with fellow Warren Wilson alumna Lenore Myka about her debut story collection, politics in fiction, the impact writing can have on culture, the costs of creativity, and more.
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“But what happens if the author walks into the story and turns up on the page?”: Maggie Kast discusses narrative distance in Coetzee’s Slow Man.
Leslie Pietrzyk talks with Melissa Scholes Young about story contests, writing grief, mothers & daughters, storytelling, and more.
Ben Nadler goes to great lengths to inhabit the setting of Isaac Babel’s “My First Fee.”
“Maybe all the books I read in childhood about faraway places helped to shape that part of my imaginative engine; I don’t know.”
