“I want to help advance the kind of crip lit in which people with disabilities are living their lives and doing perfectly fine, to highlight and differentiate the times when disability does and does not matter.” Elizabeth Earley talks with Teresa Milbrodt about her new collection, Instances of Head Switching.
“I wanted to be in dialogue with the literary tradition of ‘young artist comes of age in the city,'” Kyle McCarthy tells Brad Wetherell. “I wanted to write a version of that, a bent and twisted version.” Everyone Knows How Much I Love You is out next week from Ballantine Books.
“I count on memory to work as a kind of filter, and I trust that what sticks in the filter, even if I don’t know why it’s there, is there for a reason.” Michael Welch talks with Larry Watson about his new novel and a career of writing the High Plains.
“I’m playing with the question of fate but also social mobility. How much do we become the people our family situation predicted we would?” Debra Jo Immergut talks with Sharon Harrigan about her debut novel, Half, writing in first-person plural, darkness in fiction, desire, and more.
“I’ve always had an urge to transcend, to go beyond”: Sharon Solwitz talks with Maggie Kast about her new book, Side by Side but Never Face to Face.
“I still want to pull off a trick, but I always want to make that trick get at something real.” David James Poissant chats with Mark Polanzak about his new collection, The OK End of Funny Town, out now from BOA Editions.
“I’m interested specifically in the inner turmoil, the emotional price and weight, of self-betrayal and deception as it is experienced and enacted by queer people.” Lee Thomas talks with Peter Kispert about his debut collection.
“I think that the whole project of fiction is that you’re asking somebody to leave themselves and be somebody else in this fictive space”: Catherine Lacey talks with Danielle Lavaque-Manty about short fiction, identity shedding, the poetics of sentences, and more.
Robert James Russell speaks with Sara Rauch about her debut collection, finding inspiration in the literary arts and beyond, the role of writers in the public sphere, and the enduring value (and need) of showing how we’re all connected.
“I think that the ‘stakes’ in my stories come out of those struggles, internal or between people, which become moments of decision.” Ellen Prentisss Campbell talks with Josh Barkan about her new story collection, Known By Heart.
“I’m not the kind of historical writer who takes an event or a thing and tries to factually inhabit it. But I love to take the germ of something and pull it in a weird direction.” Melissa Scholes Young talks with Clare Beams about The Illness Lesson.
“And it’s that sense of beautiful strangeness that I think I’m always looking for”: Joyce Hinnefeld and Kate Racculia in conversation. Hinnefeld’s new collection, The Beauty of their Youth, is out now from Wolfson Press.
