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It's That Longing to Go Home Again: An Interview with Laura Maylene Walter

by Anne Stameshkin

…w, and the Crab Creek Review, among other journals; she blogs at lauramaylenewalter.com. Living Arrangements has been awarded the National Gold 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award) for Short Story Fiction (tied with Jeff Kass‘s Knuckleheads) and was named a finalist in ForeWord Reviews‘ Book of the Year Awards. Interview Anne Stameshkin: It’s been six months since Living Arrangements published. How does it feel to have your book in t…


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Apocalypse With Dimensions: An Interview with Jared Yates Sexton

by Laura Valeri

…GSU in the first place is because the Midwest and the South have a lot in common. I come from Southern Indiana, which is, culturally, dialectically, linguistically, you name it, very much a first or second cousin to what many would call “The South” proper. They both feature the same kinds of people, same sorts of struggles. But I was always infatuated with Southern writers. Hannah, Brown, even Faulkner. I loved their language, the way they got in…


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The Newness of Unseen Beings: An Interview with Maxim Loskutoff

by Steven Wingate

…ature that, as she grows older, flies in the face of what her country is becoming. As Ruthie grows, and as her community changes, her desire to fit into the world takes center stage until nature returns with a vengeance. Ruthie Fear is an untamed animal of a novel, and its ending will leave your head spinning. Loskutoff and I conversed via email from the opposite ends of adjoining states—me in eastern South Dakota, he in western Montana. Interview…


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Writing to Understand Your Humanity: An Interview with Amina Gautier

by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

…not like you’re the first girl to fall in love, you know”; “So frail, the new, new being…”; “Nelida lets her soul fly to her island across the ocean and take her where it will….”. Would you discuss how you shape and define your writing style? I believe in making each word count. If a sentence isn’t going to serve a purpose, go to work, and accomplish a goal, then it’s not a sentence that gets to stay in my story. As I revise, I listen to the sent…


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Faith, Doubt, and Genre: An Interview with Steven Wingate

by Rolf Yngve

…ife that is spiritual in absolutely every aspect and moves in ways I can’t comprehend, but simply have to live. I guess that makes me a very Taoist-inflected Catholic. With Tommy, though, I worry about doubt. He’s made the mistake of identifying his father with his religion, which is understandable because he’s been desperate for both a father and a greater understanding of the faith he doesn’t have words for. So he’s gotten them mixed up in a way…


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Fiction’s Wounding Event: Where Character And Incident Meet

by Michelle Hoover

…y Lesser holes himself up in an abandoned apartment building to finish his latest novel, only to come face to face with the figure of his very dread—another writer, also seeking asylum in the building, whose style and productivity mock Lesser’s own. The novel begins: “Lesser catching sight of himself in his lonely glass wakes to finish his book.” The first line signals an interior journey mirrored by the exterior, and by story’s end, the exterior…


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Oddly Familiar: Strangeness as Illumination (Part I: Chekhov)

by Christina Ward-Niven

…can easily envision even in our modern era. (Trudging through the forest becomes commuting in traffic, the samovar becomes a coffee maker.) A student is walking home late on Good Friday, very hungry because he has been fasting for the holiday, and the weather turns harsh. This irritates him and then depresses him. As he spirals downward into a wretched mood, he thinks of how many people before him have been miserable, and how many countless more p…


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Oh My! What Is That?: Strange Objects (Part I: Joy Williams’s “Congress”)

by Elizabeth Mayer

…uage connotes something recently birthed, something small and precious and new to the world. A complete description of the lamp defies concrete language. The lamp is “anarchy”—the electrified deer hooves resist the rules of how things should be. It is “whirl” and “hole” and “the first far drums.” Here, the rapt, mystical language not only expresses Miriam’s awe of the lamp, the lyricism of the language itself creates a rapturous effect on the read…


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Stories We Love: “New Poets,” by Michael Deagler

by J.T. Bushnell

…ior it inspires. I couldn’t believe I’d overlooked it, which forced me to look a little harder at myself. To me, that’s the best possible outcome for a story, and Deagler was setting it up all along, testing my compassion, and then showing me my failure. The result was one of the most satisfying stories I’ve read all year, and one that has been returning to me ever since….




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