Category: Interviews & Excerpts
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“Sirens of Architecture”: Alexandra Mattraw & Jake Syersak on Their Debut Books of Poetry and Beyond
Alexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and critic who has authored several books. small siren is available at The Cultural Society (2018), and two of her chapbooks can be found at dancing girl press (2013, 2017). Other poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Jacket2, Interim, VOLT, and elsewhere. A mother and ecofeminist, Alexandra curates an art-centric writing…
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“From Unusual Angles”: Maxwell Malone Interviews Matthew M. Bartlett, Creator of The WXXT Program Guide
The WXXT Program Guide is a monthly chapbook subscription service that chronicles the strange goings on in and around small-town Leeds, Massachusetts, as transmitted via radio broadcast by a long-dead coven of witches. The tales contained within often take the form of short stories or vignettes, but they are just as likely to appear as…
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“Gravity and Other Theories”: A Collaborative Interview with authors Andrew Farkas & David Leo Rice
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel, The Big Red Herring, and two fiction collections, Sunsphere and Self-Titled Debut. He is an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Washburn University and the fiction editor for The Rupture. He lives in Lawrence, KS. David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA, currently based in NYC. His first novel, A Room in…
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Regard novel excerpt by Pablo D’Stair
IT WAS UNTIL A POINT she was uncertain of she had kept a list of the topics on which they had walked at night (coming usually to rest under the several trees upon the bit of hill near the roadside) lost in discussion of. This list she now found she knew was not a complete…
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“Gostworks”: Wednesday Work Day Interview by Hillary Leftwich
Wednesday Work Day is a series started by editor Hillary Leftwich to showcase and support creatives who offer services, both in-person or online, and are impacted by the pandemic and the shutdowns both statewide as well as in other countries. The series will showcase one business or individual that is still able to provide a…
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“I’m Resistant to Form, in Life and in Art”: An Interview with Loie Rawding by Laura Eppinger
Loie Rawding grew up on the coast of Maine. Her personal work exists as hybrid monster, a cocktail of prose and poetry that focuses on her lived experience and the subconscious or fantasy spaces in which she feels protected and strong. As an artist, Loie combines paint, photography, wax, fabric, and found objects to create…
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“.SUMMONS.”: kill Christian novel excerpt & audio by Pablo D’Stair
… kill Christian finds itself the happy owner of several (perhaps meaningless, but nevertheless) distinctions in my career, so-called. Perhaps most interesting (to me, anyway) is that it is the first and only time I had gone more-than-a-year between writing novels and is also the only book to have a gap of more-than-a-year after its…
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Excerpt of Fred Misurella’s Novel A Pontiac in the Woods (Blue Triangle Press)
Jamie Sasso finds herself alone, with no family or home. Cast adrift by a distant cousin in another state, she finds she cannot tolerate her county’s foster care program. But where can she live, how can she feed herself, and in what way can she plan her future? Will she even have a future? A…
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New Podcast by Pablo D’Stair for The Disembodied Parts: a rhapsody
I have started in with Audio production (freelance for other people and doing my own projects) and my first offering has officially launched. It is 10 episode Podcast version of my most recent novel THE DISEMBODIED PARTS: A Rhapsody. The thing is done as a presentation of a dramatic recitation of the novel’s text. The…
Heavy Feather Review 