Category: Interviews & Excerpts

Contributors’ Corner: Timmy Reed

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Timmy Reed, whose stories “The Spider’s Eggs” and “Minutes from Meeting of Afterdeath Board of Directors” appear in 2.1 and 3.2. Timmy Reed is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland.…
Contributors’ Corner: Trent England

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Trent England, whose story “Patience Is the Most Passive Discipline” appears in 2.2. Trent England lives and writes in Salem, Massachusetts. He is currently working on both a play…
Contributors’ Corner: Jane Liddle

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Jane Liddle, whose story “The Last List” appears in 2.2. Jane Liddle waited at school bus stops in Newburgh, New York, learned to drive on the north…
“My Ex Boyfriend Came to Me in a Dream and Told Me Everything I Had Must Fit into a Shoe Rack Inside of His Car”: Tanner Hadfield in Conversation with Elizabeth Mikesch

Elizabeth Mikesch is a prose stylist to shout about. Her debut collection Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari Press) is a breathtaking work of fire, of hips, of sound, of saying. When I approached her about an interview, she asked if I felt like experimenting. I consented, though I wasn’t sure what she had in mind. I…
“Night Songs”: An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling by Sally Deskins

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of sixteen books, which include Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012), Petrarchan (BlazeVOX Books, 2013), and a forthcoming hybrid genre collection called Fortress from Sundress Publications. Her awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, as well as grants from the…
“Call It the Melodrama of Starting Out”: An Interview with Jack Christian by Gabe Durham

Most of my favorite booky conversations with Jack Christian took place on a disc golf course connected to a dog park that was a couple miles away from our respective homes in Northampton, MA. The quiet of the woods plus the beers in our backpacks really encouraged the kind discursive arts conversation I can only…
“It Seemed to Make Sense with How I View the World”: An Interview with Dash Shaw by Jason Teal

*Ed.’s Note: Click images to view larger sizes. I first witnessed Dash Shaw’s comics on the Fantagraphics tumblr, a tumblr which, if you follow HFR there, you know I subject to many reblogs. It was a few panels featuring President Obama, quickly followed by a succession of posts promoting New School (Fantagraphics, 2013), his latest…
“Lennon and the Spectacles of Fandom”: An Interview with Christopher Bundy by Daniel J. Cecil

I recently re-watched Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. I was house sitting for someone with a television. It was on Netflix. Sue me. I don’t know why I chose that movie in particular. There were hundreds of things to choose from–but there I was watching this strangely pre-9/11 post 9/11 film. Maybe I wanted to…
“We”: An Interview with c.vance by Ben Spivey

Ignore the limitations of history. All is accounted for as c. vance reimagines the lives of his family from five different perspectives (father, mother, they, we and she). What we have here is a fabulist’s bildungsroman—a possible history told with solid language and emotional sentences. c. vance composes his pseudo family history as if channeled…