“Perhaps this is what is so successful about Those Fantastic Lives: the collection goes beyond familiar narratives of the supernatural by asking why we are afraid of monsters and ghosts, and the things we cannot explain…” Costa B. Pappas reviews Bradley Sides’s debut collection.
Becky Hagenston and Erin Flanagan sit down to talk about Hagenston’s latest collection, The Age of Discovery, process and routine, and more.
Ruth Linnea Whitney and Nancy Kilgore discuss Bitter Magic, Kilgore’s third novel.
Dylan Colvin sits down with her former teacher, Erin Flanagan, to discuss Flanagan’s new novel, Deer Season.
“Every story begins with a feeling…And then I sit down, and try to build a house, and put that feeling inside, where it can live forever.” Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry talks with Ian Singleton about her debut collection.
Julia Watts and Eleanor J. Bader sit down to talk about Watts’s new novel, Needlework, Appalachian culture, queer visibility, and the changing South.
“Write about it? I couldn’t bear thinking about it.” Jaimee Wriston Colbert on the role a traumatic experience played in the development of her novel How Not to Drown.
Nawaaz Ahmed and Nishanth Injam sit down to discuss Ahmed’s debut novel, Radiant Figutives, out now from Counterpoint Press.
“I wanted to convey that the lives of the working poor are nuanced, lively, and immediate, and that characters flying and working under the radar are full of wonder, grit, and creativity.” Ellen Airgood talks with Philip Caputo about her new novel, Tin Camp Road.
“While A Tale For The Time Being and Ozeki’s latest novel both explore the relationship between writer and reader, The Book of Form and Emptiness does so much more directly, which is in part due to its structure and premise.” Rachel León reviews Ruth Ozeki’s new book.
