Philip Graham is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Interior Design: Stories, and The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Editor-at-Large of the literary/arts journal Ninth Letter, and a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review.
Philip Graham talks with his former student, Ted Sanders, about Sanders’s debut collection No Animals We Could Name, the transcendence of the ordinary, the role animals play in his fiction, and his forthcoming middle-grade reader fantasy series, The Keepers, which will debut from HarperCollins next year with its first volume: The Box and the Dragonfly.
Marriage as ethnography: Philip Graham talks with Angela Woodward about her novel End of the Fire Cult, in which a man and woman invent competing civilizations that mirror their “real” lives.
Philip Graham speaks with his former student William Gillespie about his debut novel, as well as the mind-warping narrative strategies of the pulp writer Harry Stephen Keeler, story maps, and DIY publishing, among other things.
