Validation is the Curse: an Interview with Christopher Hebert
by Scott Hutchins
“I was more interested in it as a book exploring characters just going about their lives. For me that’s the part of the Rust Belt narrative not often told.”
“I was more interested in it as a book exploring characters just going about their lives. For me that’s the part of the Rust Belt narrative not often told.”
“Most writers aren’t recognized in their lifetimes, but there’s always hope.”
We’re off until Labor Day. Have a fiction-filled summer!
Charles Baxter poses five questions to his former student, Dean Bakopoulos, about his new novel, Summerlong, just out in paperback.
Join us for our eighth-annual celebration of the Short Story, as we dedicate the month of May to short fiction.
“Both in life and literature, secrets often are viewed as socially inappropriate, whereas espionage is a line of work that sanctions lying, deceit, and secrets. Masters of the spy genre play with these layers of secrecy.”
“There’s also story-telling magic at work in this incantatory book; it sparks resonant memories of stories heard and internalized: once-upon-a-time-stories, fables, fairy tales, and myths, as well as those from Shakespeare and the Bible.”
For those of you headed to L. A. for this year’s AWP, we hope you’ll be sure to drop by the book fair and say hello. We’re particularly excited because this year we’ll be sharing a booth with Midwestern Gothic.
“The novel is, at heart, a bittersweet love story about left-overs of many kinds, and once a reader trusts the strange terrain, it feels like our own.”
