Category: Interviews & Excerpts
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“The Page 99 Test”: Tony Trigilio & Inside the Walls of My Own House: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 2
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”―Ford Madox Ford Page ninety-nine opens the final section of my new book, Inside the Walls of My Own House: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 2. This page is a key pivot point for…
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“The Page 99 Test”: Laurie Stone & My Life as an Animal
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”―Ford Madox Ford Damn you, Ford Madox Ford. I wanted to be done with a friend I had turned into a character in My Life as an Animal. Then I read page ninety-nine, and there she was…
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“The Page 99 Test”: Joe Milazzo & Crepuscle W/ Nellie
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”―Ford Madox Ford We’re standing outside a pawnshop, probably somewhere in Midtown or even Lower Manhattan. The year is 1955, autumn. We’re in the company of John, a “minor character” who may or may not be a…
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“Slomo croaking frogs, snow-alone steeples, pits of shoveled salt.”: Contributors’ Corner
Q: Can you share a moment that shaped you as a writer (or continues to)? What prompted your work in HFR? Katie Condon, Poetry Editor, Grist I played basketball in college. My senior year we won our conference and, appropriately, my roommates and I threw a party at our apartment for the team and anyone else…
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“To Mark the Infinite Language of the Body”: An Interview with Sara Deniz Akant by Ally Harris
Reading Sara Deniz Akant’s Babette is like stepping into an alien bog, where matter is composed in language that looks vaguely Earthlike, vaguely English, but is actually largely foreign, partially invented, but familiar enough to tether the reader to the world. Babette, frankly, is an amazingly odd book. Reading it feels like decoding a puzzle…
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“An Undertow to Struggle Against”: Anne Valente in Conversation with Dustin M. Hoffman
Dustin M. Hoffman’s debut short story collection, One Hundred-Knuckled Fist, is filled with the voices of workers and the environments of workplaces: what so often goes unnoticed in fiction, as if how we spend so much of our day must remain invisible in literature. Instead of viewing work as only one small token of characterization,…
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Daniel Falatko’s Condominium Blog Tour: Top Five
It probably says a lot about Condominium that none of the top five songs looming over the plot are by bands that ever existed. Whether this is an indicator of good things about the novel (“A cutting, surreal satire!”) or negative aspects (“What the hell is this thing even about?”) is up in the air,…
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“It Was Getting Dark Outside but I Didn’t Want to Stop Reading to Turn the Light On”: A Short Interview with Story Prize Judge Joanna Ruocco
Joanna Ruocco holds an MFA from Brown and a PhD from the University of Denver. She is the author of The Mothering Coven (Ellipses Press, 2009), Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010), A Compendium of Domestic Incidents (which won the 2009 Noemi Press Fiction Chapbook Contest; judged by Rikki Ducornet), Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych (which won the FC2 Catherine…
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“What It Would Be Like to Fall”: A Conversation with Brian Evenson by Daniel Miller
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, including the forthcoming story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press, 2016). Coffee House Press will also be reissuing his American Library Association’s award-winning novel, Last Days, as well as two more novels: The Open Curtain and Father of Lies. He has translated…
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