Jen Julian talks with Joanna Eleftheriou about missing characters, science fiction, anglerfish husbands, and her new collection, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, winner of this year’s Press 53 Award for Short Fiction.
Gary Sheppard sits down with his former classmate, Tom Bennitt, to discuss Bennitt’s debut novel, Burning Under, as well as representing the working class, writing unsympathetic characters, and the literature of the Rust Belt.
“For the longest time, I wrote without being published, so I know all about that”: Virginia Pye chats with Janyce Stefan-Cole about her new collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, out this week from Press 53.
“Reading A Bright and Pleading Dagger is a little like eating ortolan. Rivas’ stories are compact, tender, and razor-sharp. They combine the fairytale dread of Carmen Maria Machado with the dream-scape disorientation of Kelly Link.”
“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.
