On Not Letting Go: An Interview with Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin’s new novel, Inside and her story collection
Alix Ohlin’s new novel, Inside and her story collection
Novelist William Gay, who died late last month at the age of seventy, was the topic of several conversations I had at AWP this year. Most of the talks centered on Gay’s work, which was sublime, or his soul, which was sweet; we fond remember-ers would all have a sip of beer and nod somberly. He’ll be missed, we’d say. What else can you do? But sitting here today, at my post-AWP desk, in the quiet of my office full of books and stacks of revisions that need entering, I’m thinking of William Gay again. I only met him a […]
“I was going to use my novel to save Mark Gates’s life”: Dean Bakopoulos on writing, grief, and memory.
