“I love how the act of writing a novel teaches you what’s actually important about it”: Michael Shou-Yung Shum chats with Jamie Yourdon about his debut novel, Queen of Spades, out now from Forest Avenue Press.
“Renee Macalino Rutledge builds her debut novel on the bedrock of fairy tales”: Christi Craig on The Hour of Day Dreams, out this week from Forest Avenue Press.
Jamie Duclos-Yourdon and Adrian Van Young discuss revisionist historical fiction, fatherhood, and their recent novels, Froelich’s Ladder and Shadows in Summerland.
“The novel is, at heart, a bittersweet love story about left-overs of many kinds, and once a reader trusts the strange terrain, it feels like our own.”
