An Interview with Julia Watts
by Eleanor J. Bader
Julia Watts and Eleanor J. Bader sit down to talk about Watts’s new novel, Needlework, Appalachian culture, queer visibility, and the changing South.
Julia Watts and Eleanor J. Bader sit down to talk about Watts’s new novel, Needlework, Appalachian culture, queer visibility, and the changing South.
Eleanor J. Bader talks with Jon Sealy about his third novel, The Merciful, as well as morality, ethics, the state of Southern literature, the business of publishing, and the pandemic.
“That’s how Chapter 11 became Chapter 1.” Barrett Bowlin and David James Poissant talk short stories vs. novels, comic books, the pandemic, and Poissant’s new novel, Lake Life, out next week from Simon & Schuster.
“I imagine this book was a place he came to, a place where he came to express his writerly joy over the absurdity of life, especially life in the rural south, and also to ponder his particular questions about the balance between good and evil, and the culpability of the good”: Nathan Poole on William Gay’s posthumous novel.
From the Archives: Dana Kletter sits down to talk with famed fiction writer Allan Gurganus. Their conversation ranges from sexuality to southernness, from his affinity for the 19th century to how reading the work of fellow writers can be a shaping force in one’s fiction, and plenty more about teaching and the craft of writing.
“Memories can open up the idea for a story, but they can just as easily shut down the imaginative journey into it”: Brad Watson on process and craft in his work.
From the Archives: “Quatro’s stories are often fabulist, if fabulism is magical realism plus a reckoning.” Rebecca Scherm on Jamie Quatro’s debut collection, I Want to Show You More.
From the Archives: Nico Berry talks to Jesmyn Ward in 2009 about her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds.
“It is as if I’m standing right there with them listening and watching their stories evolve”: Dixon Hearne talks with David Armand about his academic background, his writing process, and his new collection, Delta Flats.
“Being smart is not the best attribute for a writer”: Tom Franklin and M.O. Walsh discuss writerly professionalism, Southern fiction, and the difficulties of writing a second book.
