Ben Pfeiffer is a founding editor of Beecher’s, and his writing has appeared in Flyway, the Rumpus, the Faster Times, and the Moon City Review. Find him online at writinginthewild.org.
Fiercely protective of his writing time, Joshua Cohen (Four New Messages) makes no apologies for keeping his interview answers pithy: “The book is the oil painting above the grand piano of the future. Certain households have them. We/they know who they are.”
Love, darkness and the long shadows of myth haunt the American Southwest in Battleborn, a debut collection from Claire Vaye Watkins.
Howard L. Anderson’s debut novel features a peculiar amalgam of talking wallabies, action-packed shoot-outs, and timeless Old West themes repackaged under an unforgiving Australian sun.
Critics compare her to Canada’s native short story master, Alice Munro, but Johanna Skibsrud has a charm—and a voice—all her own.
