No Diving Allowed, by Louise Marburg
by Mary Volmer
“No Diving Allowed defies the literary cult of likability.” Mary Volmer reviews Louise Marburg’s latest collection.
Mary Volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust (Soho Press, 2010) and Reliance, Illinois (Soho Press, 2016). Her essays, reviews, and short stories have appeared in various publications, including MUTHA Magazine, Women’s Basketball Magazine, Fiction Writers Review, Historical Novel Society Review, The New Orleans Review, Brevity, and Ploughshares. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook and was a Distinguished Visiting Writer in Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California, where she now teaches. www.maryvolmer.com
“No Diving Allowed defies the literary cult of likability.” Mary Volmer reviews Louise Marburg’s latest collection.
“Yes, I have faith in my process, but I also know that it could fail me at any time.” Louise Marburg chats with Mary Volmer about patience, process, and the short story form.
“How do we navigate, and then translate, the past’s lost and often foreign landscape?”: Mary Volmer on taking a traveler’s approach to writing historical fiction.
