From Mystery to Resolution: An Interview with Laura McHugh
by Polly Stewart
Polly Stewart talks with Laura McHugh about her new book, What’s Done in Darkness, as part of Stewart’s “Women Crime Writers” series.
Polly Stewart talks with Laura McHugh about her new book, What’s Done in Darkness, as part of Stewart’s “Women Crime Writers” series.
“That’s how the work gets done. No shortcuts, no strategies to make the process easier than it ever can or will be”: Jack Driscoll chats with Mary Stewart Atwell about his latest collection, The Goat Fish and The Lover’s Knot.
Mary Stewart Atwell talks with Alan Heathcock as part of her interview series with writers of rural fiction, undertaken in partnership with The Art of the Rural. The two discuss Heathcock’s debut collection, Volt, as well as his Midwestern influences, film, politics, and more.
“The fetishization of Devon’s body reveals the uncanniness of the ‘normal’ teenage body, held up as the ideal of beauty and desirability though it is, in a sense, incomplete”: Mary Stewart Atwell reviews Megan Abbott’s latest novel.
“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.
“Indeed, the Keatings’ struggles take on a historical and even mythic dimension that gives them significance beyond the merely personal”: Mary Stewart Atwell on Ausbel’s latest novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty.
“So little of the book was clear to me when I began writing”: Garth Greenwell discusses What Belongs to You, his debut novel from Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, with Mary Stewart Atwell.
Continuing our interview series with writers of rural fiction, Mary Stewart Atwell talks with Bonnie Jo Campbell about her newest collection, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, as well as nostalgia versus reality, novels as failed stories, and more.
“I am tempted to spin you a story about a chance boyhood encounter in the deep forest with a wild hog that left me scarred and terrified and thus writing out my fear and horror for the rest of time, but I’ll restrain the impulse.” Pinckney Benedict talks with Mary Stewart Atwell in this second interview in a series on rural fiction.
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