An Interview with David Huebert
by Brad Roach
David Huebert and Brad Roach discuss the climate crisis, character research, and Huebert’s latest collection, Chemical Valley.
David Huebert and Brad Roach discuss the climate crisis, character research, and Huebert’s latest collection, Chemical Valley.
“You will find yourself returning to these characters time and again, reconsidering the little choices that make your own life what it is.” Sophia Khan on Joann Smith’s debut collection, A Heaven of Their Choosing.
Countless writers aspire to contribute something lasting to literature. We labor over drafts. We seek innovative forms. We push ourselves to evoke particularities in tone, plot, character, circumstance, and word choice. Yet in these various pursuits, we might overlook what also endures: literary references.
Amy Janiczek on the American consumption of the spectacle of war in Aleksandar Hemon’s 2000 debut collection.
Polly Stewart talks with May Cobb about her new novel, The Hunting Wives, as part of Stewart’s “Women Crime Writers” series.
“I think each of us speak multiple languages. Not necessarily whole different tongues like Russian and English, but we speak different glosses. I like to think of those as languages.” Ian Ross Singleton talks with Cameron Finch about his debut novel, Two Big Differences.
“Accurate identification of the fictional form is important to readers and authors. But it also makes life easier for book reviewers who walk a tightrope between several different constituencies—the author, the publisher, and the reading public.” Sharon Oard Warner on the pleasures and particulars of the novella.
“I read and I write to explore lives I haven’t lived. To encounter different lives, responses, experiences. Historical fiction can be something like the illumination of starlight, reaching us, seemingly alive and bright, years after.”
“No Diving Allowed defies the literary cult of likability.” Mary Volmer reviews Louise Marburg’s latest collection.
Costa B. Pappas reviews Lejla Kalamujić’s new novel, Call Me Esteban.
