Category: Interviews & Excerpts

“We Push Up Against Change and Resist It, Sometimes Violently So”: An Interview with Peter Grandbois by Cameron Contois

I was very excited to interview author Peter Grandbois. Grandbois, who has authored six books, did not disappoint with his compelling and thought-provoking insights. His novel, The Gravedigger, was picked for the “Discover Great New Writers” program by Barnes & Noble. His hybrid memoir, The Arsenic Lobster, has also received high acclaim. More recently, Grandbois…
“The Tension between Order and Chaos”: An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling by Shin Yu Pai

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of twenty books, which include Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012), Petrarchan (BlazeVOX Books, 2013), and Scorched Altar: Selected Poems and Stories 2007-2014 (BlazeVOX Books, 2014). Her awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, as well as…
Contributors’ Corner: Laura Ellen Scott

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Laura Ellen Scott, whose story “A Texas” appears in 2.2. Laura Ellen Scott is author of the novel Death Wishing (Ig Publishing, 2011), a comic fantasy set in post-Katrina New Orleans and…
“I Think We Recognize Ourselves in the Flawed”: An Interview with Charles Dodd White by Linda Michel-Cassidy

A Shelter of Others, by Charles Dodd White (Fiddleback ltd), is set near the southern border of North Carolina, in a rugged holler punctuated by alcohol abuse, drug trade and brutish policemen. While the extremes to which these characters are pushed nears the surreal, White never allows them to become the other. By the time…
Contributors’ Corner: Nathan Blake

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Nathan Blake, whose story “When Us Men Tell” appears in 3.1. Nathan Blake’s first chapbook, Going Home Nowhere Fast, is available from Winged City Chapbook Press, and you can find some…
Contributors’ Corner: Tim Kahl

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Tim Kahl, whose poems “The Patron Saint of All Lost Causes” and “Starring: A Town at War” appear in 3.1. Tim Kahl is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW Books, 2009) and The Century…
“Sometimes the Quiet, More Chaste Gesture Is What Rouses the Heart”: A Conversation with Sara Lippmann by Megan Martin

A man who makes a living as a clown endures a difficult reunion with his teenage crush while working her son’s birthday party. A young girl struggles to forgive herself for an accident involving her younger brother. A father whose youth and reputation were destroyed by tragedy desperately seeks acceptance from his son’s friends. A…
Contributors’ Corner: Jessica Alexander

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Jessica Alexander, whose story “A Stranger Never Comes to Town” appears in 3.1. Jessica Alexander’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blip Magazine, Pank, The Collagist, Monkeybicycle, Big Lucks, Denver…
Contributors’ Corner: Jeff Tigchelaar

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Jeff Tigchelaar, whose poems appear in 3.3. Jeff Tigchelaar’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Pleiades, LIT, North American Review, The Offending Adam, Flint Hills Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal, and in anthologies including Best…