Category: Interviews & Excerpts

“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…
“.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…
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…
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…
“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?”…
“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…
“.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’ ……
“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…
“.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…