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Crossing the Threshold of Grace: Part I of an Interview with Shann Ray

by Peter Geye

…eign communities such as the Nez Perce and the Blackfeet are leading us to new places as a whole nation, as a community of people in beloved relationship. When I think of the courage of the Cheyenne, I’m reminded of the courage of people in my country of heritage, Czechoslovakia. My Czech-American grandmother, Catherine, married my German-American grandfather, Herbert, in New York City during World War II. At the same time, their home countries we…


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Unconventional Influences: An Interview with Leslie Pietrzyk

by Melissa Scholes Young

…as he was founding DC’s Story League, a story-telling organization open to newcomers. He even held some workshops on story telling which were enormously helpful. No notes was terrifying, standing all alone at a microphone was terrifying, telling the truth was terrifying, having a strict time limit was terrifying…yet it was one of the most fulfilling nights of my professional life. Tell me a little about publishing with University of Pittsburgh Pre…


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It’s Not About What It’s About: An Interview with Michael Carroll

by Alden Jones

…writer from real life who’d seen it all from Stonewall on, and he was fun company, complex. The only other interviewer to ask this question was a fiction writer, too, Andrew Holleran—so I guess that says something. For us autobiography and writing about the profession is like entering a Hall of Mirrors. But which of us, actually, isn’t narcissistic? Perhaps that is why we fiction writers dodge the question so readily! Your candor is refreshing, b…


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Getting the South Right: an Interview with Jesmyn Ward

by Nico Berry

…mething? Because nobody respects southern rappers—they’re seen as just the latest trend that needs to end as soon as possible—or least that’s what it feels like. No one seems to respect southern rappers lyrically, so I wanted to pair Pastor Troy with that quote from the Bible to add emphasis to the verse, and add a certain legitimacy to it—to show that he’s talking about real issues that should be taken seriously. Do you worry that that attitude t…


Reviews |

Unblinking, by Lisa Lenzo

by Hasanthika Sirisena

…Maybe that’s why every time I try to find the right word for Lisa Lenzo’s latest collection, Unblinking (Wayne State University Press), I keep returning to the word elegy. That isn’t to assert that the collection is particularly mournful or sad or to insinuate anything about Lenzo’s career. The stories are vital and energetic and they fiercely tackle race, class, masculinity. But the realist lens through which they examine the world harkens back…


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A Chance to Change, a Chance to be Better: An Interview with Matt Bell

by Aaron Burch

…clude some of what was in How They Were Found, make room for some of these new stories, and become something else entirely. That might be a better book. But then there are stories that probably don’t go together at all, and maybe those are the stories I should be investigating for possible next steps. Overall, I think I’m a little more comfortable with the idea that there is going to be crossover between books than I was right after the first book…


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An Interview with Ben Nadler

by Catherine Tung

…in history are the same, but since you and I have shared connections to Protestantism, and Protestant music specifically, I would definitely draw a parallel to Hasidism and the Protestant Reformation. You know, this idea that you no longer needed that complex (albeit beautiful) cathedral music. Hasidic tales are like those four-part hymns anyone can sing. Or that any preacher can write new lyrics to. There is influence from many Hasidic tales in m…


Shop Talk |

Get Writing: Be Authentic

…nto an action related to that knowledge. This is the new beginning to your story. Introduce the old characters to the new one and begin the heavy lifting of weaving the new section into the old. Be patient, but persistent. Your new material will inflict change upon the old and an entirely new story will be born. J.R. Angelella lives in New York, where he writes and teaches fiction. His debut novel, Zombie, about a boy who filters his messed-up wor…


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New Histories: An Interview with Tim Weed

by Alden Jones

…is more sympathetic to the native culture than he is of his own colonizing community, but most members of the colonizing community were not. Were you concerned, while writing, that you might be putting the values of 21st-century America on your 17th- century characters? I feel like that would be one of the hardest things about writing historical fiction. Wow, good question. I think it was less a matter of fighting against stereotypes and more a ma…


Essays |

DFW + Me = An ‘Arranged’ Marriage of Music and Fiction

by Eric Moe

…into Chapman’s Homer”   A whole new kind of ritual narrative, neither Old Comic nor New Tragic – the sit-trag.   This spring I had the good fortune to have a New York revival of my one-woman opera/situation-tragedy Tri-Stan, a musical setting of David Foster Wallace’s story “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko.” Also this spring, I had the spectacular good fortune to be awarded a residency fellowship as a composer at the Camargo Foundation in the…




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