Visitations, by Lee Upton
by Emily Nagin
“Visitations is all about reckonings. Who are you at your most selfish, Upton asks, at your most desperate, your most monstrous?”: Emily Nagin on Lee Upton’s latest collection, out now from LSU Press.
“Visitations is all about reckonings. Who are you at your most selfish, Upton asks, at your most desperate, your most monstrous?”: Emily Nagin on Lee Upton’s latest collection, out now from LSU Press.
“When the idea, as originally conceived, drops out of the story in question, that piece becomes almost like a donut—with a missing center. I feel like that’s what fiction is supposed to do, in a way”: Doug Trevor chats with Jeff Henebury about writing long short stories, the many powers of books, the MFA community, and his new collection, The Book of Wonder, out today from SixOneSeven Books.
“So here, in his creative and affectionate treatment of both Larkin and Hull, the author reminds us to look more deeply”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Jonathan Tulloch’s new novel, Larkinland, out this month from Seren Books.
“If someone reads this book and ends up questioning her own beliefs, I’ll feel I’ve done my job well”: Joan Dempsey with Dawna Kemper on her debut novel, This Is How It Begins, out this week from She Writes Press.
“Oh, you’d think it would be so much easier the second time”: Nancy Kilgore chats with Kim Church about her second novel, Wild Mountain, out this week from Green Writers Press.
“I’ve heard readers say they see their own relationships to food and body image in the book and there’s real power in seeing oneself represented that way”: Noley Reid in conversation with Annie Hartnett about her novel Pretend We Are Lovely, published this summer by Tin House Books.
“A voice may change over time, but fingerprints endure, and Gordon’s mark these new pages”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Mary Gordon’s There Your Heart Lies, published this summer by Pantheon.
“As a fiction writer I am used to hiding behind the word ‘I'”: Margot Livesey chats with Emily Gray Tedrowe about inspiration, teaching, and The Hidden Machinery, her new book of craft essays, out now from Tin House Books.
“Often I get a really good draft done and then spend years polishing it”: Caitlin Hamilton Summie chats with Steve Yarbrough about her debut collection, To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts, out now from Fomite Press.
“I wrote big swaths of this book operating on instinct, and I had a lot of luck with the instincts later bearing fruit”: Holly Goddard Jones with Danielle LaVaque-Manty on dystopian fiction, Cracker Barrel, and The Salt Line, out this week from G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
