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by Charlotte Boulay
…e was also developing a blueprint for a floating wind farm big enough to accommodate the entire community of people needed to service and run it. . . . On Sundays he played drums in a rock band, just for fun. He was expecting his eleventh child, which wasn’t as bad as it sounded when you considered that he and his wife had once adopted quadruplets from Guatemala. I was finding it difficult to assimilate everything I was being told. The waitresses…
…a position paper. It’s a story.” As a story it doesn’t provide answers but new questions or new ways of looking at the old ones. As you’ve promoted the book, what questions have surprised you? I am most surprised by the generosity of people who share their stories. I have had a number of people “come out” to me, for lack of a better word, about their blended families, or about their grief, or about simply being a young person struggling against th…
…t an honest way – but a more interesting way of describing the world.” The latest installment of Steven Wingate’s “Quotes and Notes” series tackles hypnagogia and this quote by Edgar Allen Poe: “Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’” And don’t miss Jeremy’s tribute to the late Barry Hannah, “Every Line Matters.” Finally, you ca…
…nd grew up in the same cultural and racial worlds of the 50s and 60s. (The latest edition of my novel, Oxherding Tale, has a cover that August came up with, and he gets in the book credit for cover design and art.) I recommend that readers of this interview take a look at “Night Hawks” in Kenyon Review for the full story of our friendship. I love that essay. I remember a moment when you talk about how August Wilson used to dream that after finishi…
…intrude. I got my first e-mail account in college, and it didn’t really become a major way of communicating until I was a couple years into it. It was neat, but you didn’t really use it a lot. I’m old enough to remember when even phones were just dumb. In law school I had a chunky Motorola phone that was huge, and you couldn’t do anything on it, and that was good. I couldn’t constantly look at things. So I have years of adulthood where I was inca…
…ow the only true world is the one you carry inside you.” These stories are compelling journeys because they are so true. We’re giving away a copy of Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain next week to three of our Twitter followers. To be eligible for this giveaway (and all future ones), simply click over to Twitter and “follow” us (@fictionwriters). To all of you who are already fans, thank you! Further Reading Read the rest of Espach’s review. Rea…
…is marriage, in this life) with her husband. Perhaps the collection is best described in my favorite story, “Doctor Vick’s,” when Perillo writes, “You know the only true world is the one you carry inside you.” These stories are compelling journeys because they are so true. Extras Get a copy of Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain at Amazon, IndieBound, or Powell’s. Read Lucia Perillo’s poem “This Red T-Shirt” – published in The New Yorker, May 10,…
…m about it. So, after short e-mail suggestion, problem solved. Roy Kesey’s latest books are the short story collection Any Deadly Thing (Dzanc Books, 2013) and the novel Pacazo (Dzanc Books, 2011/Jonathan Cape, 2012). His short stories, essays, translations, and poems have appeared in more than a hundred magazines and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and New Sudden Fiction. Interview: Philip Graham: Recently I was describing your…
…the expert reading brain as we know it. From David Gelertner, professor of computer science: All reading is not migrating to computer screens. So long as books are cheap, tough, easy to “read” from outside (What kind of book is this? How long is it? Is this the one I was reading last week? Let’s flip to the pictures), easy to mark up, rated for safe operation from beaches to polar wastes and — above all — beautiful, they will remain the best of al…
