“I think that the whole project of fiction is that you’re asking somebody to leave themselves and be somebody else in this fictive space”: Catherine Lacey talks with Danielle Lavaque-Manty about short fiction, identity shedding, the poetics of sentences, and more.
“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.”
Given the vast quantity of Alice/Carroll-inspired work, the reader might wonder: “Is there anything new to add?” Here, happily, Seabrook proves it is still possible to make an original contribution.
Is plagiarism really a crime? A moral failure? Forrest Anderson wonders if it might be a necessary step in learning how to write–in uncovering the authentic self.
William Boyle talks with Richard Lange about Lange’s new novel, his influences, and the problem with describing literature as “cinematic.”
Do early heroes stand the test of time? Hemingway may be a young writer’s writer… who still keeps you late at the bar.
Novelist Megan Abbott talks to William Boyle about David Lynch, girls’ locker rooms, haunting cheerleading message boards, and losing your sense of wonder forever.
Ray Bradbury’s Pulitzer-winning stories provide a portal back to childhood, and the ultimate SciFi shape-shifter: age.
A close encounter with a famous novelist in his twilight alters the course of a writer’s life.
Jim Krusoe’s twelfth book, the novel Parsifal, launches into Unreal territory. The author on Kafka, dreams, playing the lotto, and why he’s given up motorcycles.
