May is Short Story Month – 2020 Edition
by The Editors
Join us for our twelfth-annual celebration of the short story, as we dedicate the month of May to short fiction.
Join us for our twelfth-annual celebration of the short story, as we dedicate the month of May to short fiction.
“All these distractions and barriers have softened my writing discipline and made it less like bone, more like water—it flows into any shape it’s given.” Steven Wingate talks about how parenthood, contrary to popular wisdom, can be the best thing for your creativity.
“I’m not the kind of historical writer who takes an event or a thing and tries to factually inhabit it. But I love to take the germ of something and pull it in a weird direction.” Melissa Scholes Young talks with Clare Beams about The Illness Lesson.
“None of us knows what these coming months will bring.” Travis Holland revisits William Maxwell’s 1937 novel, They Came Like Swallows, set during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, meditating on stillness, absence, and memory during the current crisis.
“Cargill Falls asks big questions about life, particularly about the ways masculinity is passed on through the generations in America”: Steven Wingate reviews William Lychack’s new novel.
“If memory is a museum to which we all repeatedly return, then perhaps David’s anguish is the price of admission he must pay to keep Imogen alive in the only way the dead can be kept alive.” Travis Holland reviews Jonathan Buckley’s novel The Great Concert of the Night.
“Nesbit’s empathy is as evident and important here as her commitment to accuracy”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on TaraShea Nesbit’s new novel, Beheld.
“And it’s that sense of beautiful strangeness that I think I’m always looking for”: Joyce Hinnefeld and Kate Racculia in conversation. Hinnefeld’s new collection, The Beauty of their Youth, is out now from Wolfson Press.
“Everything started from a lunchtime conversation with my parents, randomly talking about our old building in Ukraine”: Maria Reva talks with Isaac Yuen about her debut collection, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, which takes place in the pre- and post-fall USSR.
“Though Indelicacy does not announce itself as autofiction, it shares with autofiction what I find to be the most fundamental aspects of the genre: the act of writing becomes inextricable from the story being told.” Natalie Bakopoulos reviews Amina Cain’s debut novel.
