Category: Interviews & Excerpts
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“THE PRISON FORECAST”: Excerpted from Agitprop for Bedtime: Polemic, Story Problems, Kulturporn and Humdingers by Charles Holdefer (Sagging Meniscus Press)
A portable collection of polemical bedtime stories for adults, addressing such timely topics as: erectile dysfunction during the national anthem, what happens when Nancy Pelosi comes calling, and what Model A Fords say under certain conditions. THE PRISON FORECAST “Welcome, Tim!” “Great to be on the show, Jill!” “So—what’s your outlook on today’s prison market?”…
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“Outside of Our Conscious Control”: PK Eriksson Interviews Donald Platt
One illuminated Letter of Being is a sequence of poems—by turns lyric, narrative, and dramatic—that limn what it means for a son to watch and be fully present as his mother prepares to die. These poems are about living in the midst of death and about dying, “while everything is coming into bloom.” Donald Platt…
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“.LAST WORDS.”: Confidant novel excerpt & audio by Pablo D’Stair
… I think I remember the parking lot, the weather, where I was standing with my best friend Goodloe Byron, first describing what would become my second novel, CONFIDANT. I described the project to him as ‘a real shilling shocker, like a 70s era Dario Argento giallo if one was co-authored by Andre Gide’ ……
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“More Heart Than Weather”: Zach Savich Interviews Noah Falck
Noah Falck’s newest book of poetry is Exclusions (Tupelo Press, 2020). He is also the author of You Are In Nearly Every Future (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017) and Snowmen Losing Weight (BatCat Press, 2012). He lives in Buffalo, New York, where he works as education director at Just Buffalo Literary Center and curates the Silo City…
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“.DECEMBER.”: October People novel excerpt & audio by Pablo D’Stair
…It was twenty-years ago today (as someone – I can’t think who – was known to say) at the ripe young age of nineteen, beguiled by my mis-reading of the rules to the Anvil Press 3-Day Novel Writing Contest, that I locked myself in the cheapest Econo Lodge money could buy for the purpose of…
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“The Aftermath of Disconnection”: An Interview with Gina Tron by Hillary Leftwich
Gina Tron has authored three books, and she has three more books forthcoming, including Star 67, which drops on 11/11 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Her poems have been published in Green Mountains Review, Hunger Mountain, Junto Magazine, and Tupelo Quarterly. Gina has an MFA in Writing and Publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.…
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“Into the Pool of Magma”: An Interview with Directory Author Christopher Linforth by Tyler Dempsey
Has a book made you mad? It’s so good, you realize drugs exist—without your knowing—that send authors to parallel planes? Me neither. Well … one time. I read Christopher Linforth’s new collection, Directory. I threw it across the room. Like brain-bugs cats give us, the book had me doing things—sniffing, salivating, yelping. I read it…
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Harvestman: Neurosis Steve Von Till Video Interview by Ryan Bollenbach
“Steve Von Till’s poems are lamentations—elegies for the loss of wildness, songs of hope, chants of spirit, and dreams of survival. In Harvestman, Von Till meditates on what it means to be human during a time of alienation from nature, our past, community, and ultimately ourselves. This is the first collection from Von Till, who…
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“Emotional Resonances”: Jesi Buell Chats with Tariq Shah about His Debut Novel Whiteout Conditions (Two Dollar Radio)
Tariq Shah’s Whiteout Conditions is a slim book that, by centering on death, allows its protagonist to explore life. Ant, the main character, is back in town for a funeral in the middle of winter. As he wanders through his hometown and its memories, Shah leads us through a taut exploration of grief, masculinity, and revenge…
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