“That’s how the work gets done. No shortcuts, no strategies to make the process easier than it ever can or will be”: Jack Driscoll chats with Mary Stewart Atwell about his latest collection, The Goat Fish and The Lover’s Knot.
“I didn’t expect the new chapters—the ones from different characters’ points of view—to be so much fun, so interesting to write, so revealing”: David Hicks chats with Emily Nagin about his debut novel, White Plains, out now from Conundrum Press.
Maile Meloy in an interview From the Archives: “I think you have to find an emotional connection to the story, to make anyone else care about it, but I would find writing only what I know to be limiting.”
“A lot of things are inherently funny when there is a conflict and an opposition. We’re not simple people. Everybody is complex”: Nina Buckless catches up with Marvin Cohen, whose strange and wonderful fiction is still finding new audiences 40 years later.
“Troubles arise, but Sidney’s frankness, her eye for detail, and her big-hearted determination carry the story”: Julian Anderson on Courtney Yasmineh’s debut novel, A Girl Called Sidney.
“In spite of the loss that pervades my novels, I hope that readers feel the continual making in the language, the poetry that shores us up against the loss”: Andrew Krivák talks with Shann Ray about family, landscape, and his latest novel, The Signal Flame, out now from Scribner.
Joshua Bodwell celebrates Black Sparrow Press’s fiftieth anniversary as a trade publisher—with five footnotes, one for each decade.
“His fiction is baffling and fresh enough to revert even experienced readers back into novices”: Eric McDowell on metafiction and writing lessons in César Aira’s “The All That Ploughs through the Nothing.” Aira’s latest in translation, The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof, comes out today from New Directions.
“I suppose if flash fiction were a running form, it would be a sprint. One that requires a lot of thinking and training and art to have a good, solid race”: Kim Chinquee with Steve Wingate on her new collection of flash fiction, Veer, out this spring from Ravenna Press.
“The author gives us just what she promised: more than meets the eye”: Mari Carlson on Becky Hagenston’s “Scavengers.”
