Category: Interviews & Excerpts

Book Excerpt: Three from Tricia Middleton’s Novel-in-Verse Obsidian Situations

What is the obsidian situation? An act of mourning, committed in a mood of cocky abjection, against indifference and hollow repetition. The element is wet: fountains, sweat, vapours, wine, puddles, tears tears tears, soggy towels and the Seine flowing beneath. The form is layered, carefully folded, then crumpled and held together with an ancient ribbon.…
“Spirit Rock”: Matthew Sidney Parsons Talks with Wes Blake about His Book Pineville Trace

Wes Blake lives in Nonesuch, Kentucky, and is the author of Pineville Trace, winner of the Etchings Press Novella Prize. Pineville Trace follows Frank Russet, as he sets off on a quest following a cat named Buffalo. After Frank escapes from a prison in Kentucky, his journey to find meaning in the absence of his…
“Something Can Die and Yet Persist Interminably”: A Conversation Around the Future of the Book with Ansgar Allen by S. D. Stewart

Ansgar Allen’s fictions roam like ruminants in search of fertile land from which to graze. Over the course of seven novels, Allen has traveled in nearly as many directions in terms of both style and substance. His latest, The Faces of Pluto, is perhaps his most inscrutable book to date. A dense whirlwind of interrogations…
Book Excerpt: Six New Clark Coolidge Poems from Radium Out Cold

These poems are a kind of pure poetry that reflects the the writer’s life work of interacting with language. For those who are drawn in, this work can take on an importance that permeates how we think and hear and see and live, complete with an ongoing sense of play and utter joy in the…
Bradford A. Masoni Talks to Suspect Gina Tron about Her New Memoir

Gina Tron is no stranger to raw honesty on the page. A prolific writer and poet, she has authored three memoirs, including her 2014 debut You’re Fine, praised by Interview Magazine as “vibrant, darkly funny, and courageously candid.” Her most recent memoir, Suspect, delves into complex topics like bullying, toxic female friendships, and the systemic…
Daniel A. Rabuzzi Talks with Ken Scholes about Rewriting the Bible, Genre, and the Influence of Music on Writing

Ken Scholes is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories published internationally in eight languages. His series, The Psalms of Isaak, is published by Tor Books, and his short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press. Fairwood is also publishing Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of…
“Embodied Psychologies”: Meghan Lamb Talks to Robert Kloss, author of The Genocide House

Four years ago, if you’d told me that one day, I’d be interviewing Robert Kloss in my own living room, I wouldn’t have believed you. If you’d told me that I would also be the editor of his ambitious fifth novel—The Genocide House—and his wife, I probably would have thought you were insane. As someone…
Geoff Graser and K.E. Semmel Discuss His Novel The Book of Losman

The Book of Losman is the debut novel by K.E. Semmel, a writer and translator who lives in Scottsville, New York. Semmel tells the story of Daniel Losman, an American literary translator who has emigrated to Denmark. Losman is trying to discover the cause of his Tourette syndrome, and is willing to go to great…
“Killing Is Caring”: An Interview with David Kuhnlein by Matthew Kinlin

Writer, poet, editor, visual artist, and actor: David Kuhnlein’s work is expansive and mutant. Working with fellow alchemist Sean Kilpatrick, Kuhnlein has developed a concentrated form of text: concise, insidious, visceral. Blood boiled into tar. His haunting first novel, Die Closer to Me, a work of science fiction set on the planet Süskind, was released…