Mary Lynn Reed is a fiction writer and mathematician—but I’ve learned she’s also a photographer, shark-level pool player, and ace … More
Category: Feature Interviews
“I Cherish the Act of Sentencing”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen is one of America’s most formally inventive and intellectually stimulating novelists. Few writers have been as consistently excellent … More
“A Hallucinatory Clarity”: Marcus Pactor in Conversation with Angela Woodward
Angela Woodward works both unlikely and widely known history into her slim fictions. In her new novel, Ink, she weaves … More
“Car-X”: An Excerpt from Angela Woodward’s New Novel Ink
“We have extensive accounts, typed out neatly: ‘They took me into a dark room and started hitting me on the … More
“That Poetry Could Be Something Not So Insular”: An Interview with Luke Stromberg by John Wall Berger
Luke Stromberg has lived in Upper Darby, just outside of Philadelphia, his whole life. His poetry has been published in … More
“Masks” for Haunted Passages: Short Story Excerpt from How to See Ghosts & Other Figments, a new collection by Orrin Grey
When it comes to short fiction, Orrin Grey is a magician, a practitioner of an arcane art inspired by the … More
Review & Interview: Kristina T. Saccone on Sue Mell’s Giving Care
“I need more pills.” My mom’s texts arrive throughout my day—during back-to-back work meetings, while I’m driving to pick up … More
“Believe with Me”: An Interview with Zach VandeZande by Dana Diehl
When I learned Zach VandeZande had a new short story collection coming out, I jumped at the opportunity to read … More
On The Year of the Monster with Tara Stillions Whitehead: An Interview by Shannon Wolf
I sometimes wonder how one person can do so much. At any one time, when I speak to Tara Stillions … More
Exclusive Story Excerpt “The Living” from Campfires of the Dead and the Living by Peter Christopher – Out Now!
Campfires of the Dead and the Living is a collection of short fiction by Peter Christopher. This volume contains The … More
Three Poems Exclusively from Jay Halsey’s Multi-Form Collection Barely Half in an Awkward Line
Barely Half in an Awkward Line weaves a twelve-year span of Jay Halsey’s photography, poems, short stories, and essays. Photos … More
“The Posthuman Realist”: An Interview with Steve Tomasula by Marcus Pactor
Steve Tomasula is a literary pioneer of both prose and page design. Those designs transform the vast depth of his … More
“The Possibility of America”: An Interview with Indran Amirthanayagam by John Wall Barger
Born in 1960 in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), Indran Amirthanayagam moved to London, England, at eight, and Honolulu at … More
“Each Drop Is Its Own Light”: Tiffany Troy in Conversation with Dara Barrois/Dixon about Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina
Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) is the author of the Wave Books titles In the Still of the Night, You Good Thing, Reverse … More
“Memetic and Disoriented TV Dinners”: An Interview with Garth Miró by Claire Hopple
The Vacation is a beach read’s evil twin. But sort of a saintly one. Throw Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Aquinas, … More