An Interview with Virginia Pye
“For the longest time, I wrote without being published, so I know all about that”: Virginia Pye chats with Janyce Stefan-Cole about her new collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, out this week from Press 53.
“For the longest time, I wrote without being published, so I know all about that”: Virginia Pye chats with Janyce Stefan-Cole about her new collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, out this week from Press 53.
“Yarbrough asks, what does it take to care again? At rock bottom, what makes a person look forward and up?”: Mari Carlson on Steve Yarbrough’s new novel, The Unmade World, out now from Unbridled Books.
“There is so much published that is all the same. Yet there burns that desire to create something that does not exist. Especially for the Ozarks. Something that is not exactly like anything else under the sun.”
In Part II of Peter Geye’s interview with Shann Ray, the authors continue their discussion of Ray’s novel American Copper, as well as the rewards of working with good editors, “what makes fiction go,” the lyric in fiction, and more.
Peter Geye talks with Shann Ray about Montana wilderness, intimate landscapes, and Ray’s debut novel, American Copper.
“I’m fatigued by the idea that there is police tape around content”: Elise Blackwell talks with Alan Heathcock about genre, New Orleans, and her new novel, The Lower Quarter.
“I barely scraped the surface of the vast bank of medical cases I had at my disposal”: David Bajo talks with Tyler McMahon about the world of medicine, literary plotting, and Mercy 6, his latest novel.
Virginia Pye’s debut novel, River of Dust (Unbridled Books), was an Indie Next Pick for May 2013. Carolyn See, in the Washington Post, called it “mysterious, exotic, creepy—everything ignorant foreigners used to believe China to be.” And in his blurb, Robert Olen Butler hailed the novel as “a major book by a splendid writer.” River of Dust is a gripping historical adventure, set in rural China in 1910, which opens with a parent’s worst fear: kidnapping. The book is also a lyrical psychological and spiritual meditation, as the search for the American missionary couple’s stolen son becomes nothing less than a search for “the […]
Our newest feature is Elizabeth Huergo’s debut novel, The Death of Fidel Pérez, which was published this month by Unbridled Books. Elizabeth Huergo was born in Havana and immigrated to the United States at an early age as a political refugee. Her work has been published in such places as Diaspora and Potomoc Review, as well as anthologized in such collections as I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights and Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women. She teaches at George Mason University and lives in Virginia. Huergo can be found […]
“When you live in a nation that has been politically destabilized by outside forces, anything is possible. I know what it’s like firsthand for a government to fall, for a system to collapse. If you’ve lived in a society where that has happened, there is nothing ‘magical’ about that ‘realism”: Elizabeth Huergo talks with Melissa Scholes Young about her debut novel, The Death of Fidel Pérez.
