“A thorough, imaginative investigation into the profound and sometimes undesirable ways we are shaped by family and place.” Josie Tolin reviews Carribean Fragoza’s debut collection, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You (City Lights Publishers).
“Writers often get obsessed with a story or character. I can just as easily get obsessed with making pom-poms. I love the feeling of being in the creative world of the project versus the actual world.” Colleen Hubbard talks with Maria Adelmann about her debut collection, Girls of a Certain Age.
Join us for our thirteenth-annual celebration of the short story, as we dedicate the month of May to short fiction.
“It’s an act of communication of something that I wasn’t sure I was allowed to say to somebody who wasn’t sure they were allowed to feel what they were feeling.” Peter Ho Davies talks with Travis Holland about his new novel, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself.
With the impending release of his debut novel, The Step Back, J.T. Bushnell meditates on intersections and departures in our fiction.
Jamie Yourdon and Aurelie Sheehan chat about research, power dynamics, and Yourdon’s new novel, The Space Between Two Deaths.
Melanie Finn sits down to talk with Benjamin Woodard about her latest novel, The Hare, out now from Two Dollar Radio.
“I wanted to infuse the book with a sense of hauntedness, and I realized that one way to do that was to let the victims who are at the center of the novel act as a Greek chorus.” Caitlin Mullen talks with Daisy Alpert Florin about her debut novel, Please See Us, which is currently a 2021 Edgar Allen Poe Award finalist for Best First Novel.
“The rubble of what happens is the real souvenir in these stories: memento mori, reminder not just of time gone by, but of death, always there, always approaching.” Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Elizabeth McCracken’s new collection, The Souvenir Museum.
J.T. Bushnell on how Michael Deagler’s “New Poets” makes us rethink an old trope: the antagonist.
