FWR editor Eric McDowell and Barrett Bowlin sit down to talk small presses, the fiction of shitty jobs, and Bowlin’s debut collection, Ghosts Caught on Film, winner of the Bridge Eight Press Fiction Prize.
From the Archives: “But for me that liminal quality, neither one thing nor the other, is exactly the point”: Peter Ho Davies with Eric McDowell on writerly patience, all manner of hybridity, and his novel The Fortunes.
“You might love, hate, or feel conflicted about these characters—but the main thing is that you believe in them and feel compelled to follow them wherever they go”: Mimi Lok and Eric McDowell talk process, empathy, and Lok’s debut collection, Last of Her Name, out now from Kaya Press.
“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.
On Lydia Davis’s “Letter” stories from her new collection, Can’t and Won’t
