“Risking Chaos”: Marcus Pactor Chats with David Leo Rice, Author of The New House

David Leo Rice writes singularly weird fiction about the experiences of artists and drifters wandering hallucinatory landscapes. His latest novel, … More

“There Was Always Something More I Had to Know”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Gabriel Blackwell

Gabriel Blackwell never repeats himself. Each of his seven books offers a distinct approach to fiction, bending forms and genres … More

Exclusive Excerpt from And Yet, a book-length speculative essay by Jeff Alessandrelli

An innovative work of speculative fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli’s And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of … More

“Genre and Selfhood and Speculation, Endless”: Jeff Alessandrelli on writing And Yet

Genre and Selfhood and Speculation, Endless I recently published a book that, like thousands of books, is nebulous vis-à-vis genre. … More

“Trudging Through the Universe / As A Gigantic Lonely Eyeball”: An Interview with Gion Davis by Jeremy Boyd

Gion Davis’ debut poetry collection Too Much, forthcoming September this year, won the 2021 Ghost Peach Press Prize selected by … More

“Finding the Ghost in Hoarded Objects”: William Lessard Interviews Kate Durbin

Kate Durbin’s art and writing have been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Believer, BOMB, … More

“Towards Love”: Cameron Finch Interviews Erin Stalcup, Author of KEEN

Erin Stalcup is a big-hearted human who writes novels with her blood. What I mean is that when Erin cares … More

THIS IS SYMBIOSIS, a video performance for the 2021 Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship

Ansel Bloom & Brenna Marie Gautam are siblings, best friends, and co-creators. Brenna lives in Arlington, Virginia and works as … More

“Numbering, Headings, Weird Animal Facts”: Gay Degani Interviews Lynn Mundell, author of LET OUR BODIES BE RETURNED TO US

Lynn Mundell’s writing has been published in literary journals including Tin House, The Sun, Booth, and Five Points, and in … More

“My Dog Is That One”: Angelo Maneage Interviewed by Zach Savich

“It felt right to be coughing on the ground,” Angelo Maneage tells us in The Improper Use of Plates, his remarkable … More

“The Land of All Time”: William Lessard Interviews Clark Coolidge + Six Exclusive Poems

For six decades, Clark Coolidge has been presenting language awash in information, with jarring and frequently hilarious syntax. Although frequently … More

“Forsaken”: Gay Degani Interviews Jayne Martin, author of the memoir THE DADDY CHRONICLES

A stick of dynamite is about the size of a banana. It doesn’t necessarily look dangerous, but it carries with … More

“A Brief Flash of Strangeness”: Adam McPhee in Conversation with TOADSTONES Author Eric Williams

Eric Williams is a writer living on the lithified remains of a Cretaceous Seaway in Austin, TX. His fiction has … More

“Electricity in this Dehydrated Landscape”: A Conversation with Vi Khi Nao by Mark Ari

Vi Khi Nao is a true original, a fabulously prolific artist whose curiosity, creative energy, and talent are apparently boundless. … More

“State of Decay”: A Georgia Poets’ Roundtable

Regionalisms abound in accounts of contemporary poetry, and the American South remains one of the most complex and productive of … More