Validation is the Curse: an Interview with Christopher Hebert
by Scott Hutchins
“I was more interested in it as a book exploring characters just going about their lives. For me that’s the part of the Rust Belt narrative not often told.”
“I was more interested in it as a book exploring characters just going about their lives. For me that’s the part of the Rust Belt narrative not often told.”
“Most writers aren’t recognized in their lifetimes, but there’s always hope.”
“Haigh presents no over-simplified white hats and black hats in her story. Instead, Haigh gets inside frackers, locals, and activists alike, finding flawed, warm individuals in all camps.”
Richard Hawley talks with Mindy Misener about youth, revelations, the origins of his new novel, and more.
“There is knowledge in this book that seems bigger than MFA fodder, a living-out of the truths that the writing life uncovers and details that cannot be arrived at via Google”: Nathan Poole on Robin MacArthur’s debut collection, Half Wild.
We’re off until Labor Day. Have a fiction-filled summer!
Charles Baxter poses five questions to his former student, Dean Bakopoulos, about his new novel, Summerlong, just out in paperback.
“Should we fear these women or sympathize with them, or—somehow—manage to do both?”: Mary Stewart Atwell reviews Emma Cline’s debut novel, The Girls, out this month from Random House.
“Most salient, however, is the way in which Veá inhabits his characters to evince what is clearly a deeply felt responsibility toward the victims of wrongful death”: Julian Anderson on Alfredo Veá’s new novel, The Mexican Flyboy.
