Category: Interviews & Excerpts

“Just in Case There Are Any Odd Little Paste-eating Girls Reading This, I’d Like to Give Them Some Small Ray of Hope”: An Interview with Julie Innis by Robert Vaughan

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Julie Innis now lives in New York. Her stories and essays have appeared in Post Road, Pindeldyboz, Gargoyle, and The Long Story, among others. She holds a Master’s in English Literature from Ohio University and is currently on staff at One Story as a reader. She is the author of Three…
“Needing It, Getting It, Not Being Satisfied by It, Trying to Learn to Live Without It”: An Interview with Brad Sucks by Jason Teal

Brad Sucks is a musician from Ottawa, Ontario. His back catalog boasts two full-length albums, I Don’t Know What I’m Doing (2003) and Out of It (2008), and he is hard at work mixing a third, Guess Who’s a Mess. Brad is noted not only for his catchy hooks, but also for his employment of open-source music…
“I Can Barely Interrupt a Telemarketer”: An Interview with Chelsea Martin by Kim Stoll

Chelsea Martin “studied” art and writing at California College of the Arts (though she holds no degree because she owes $300 in tuition). Both her first book, Everything Was Fine Until Whatever, and her second, The Really Funny Thing about Apathy, continue to be huge sources of stress, particularly when someone asks her what her…
“If I Were to Write a Book About Tibet”: An Interview with Dinty W. Moore by Nathan Floom

Dinty W. Moore is a professor and director of creative writing at Ohio University and is regularly invited to speak and teach in the U.S. and Europe. In addition to publishing fiction and nonfiction, he has published two books on the art and craft of writing. He has been published in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Arts…
“The Internet Is Where It’s At”: An Interview with Carson Mell by Joe Martin

Carson Mell is a writer/filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. His work embraces many mediums, from music videos to Sundance-screened short films, to his two novels Saguaro and The Blue Bourbon Orchestra. With an original voice oozing both cool and humorous, Mell’s work has brought to life unique characters such as a contemplative inter-dimensional traveler, an introspective writer with hotel…
Cheap Beer and Tacos and Women with Thick Hips: An Interview with Barry Graham

Barry Graham received his MFA from Rutgers University. He is the author of The National Virginity Pledge and Nothing or Next to Nothing. Graham is the editor for DOGZPLOT and publisher of Paper Hero Press. Look for him online barrygfunk.blogspot.com. HFR: Which came first: DOGZPLOT, Paper Hero Press, or the writing? Barry Graham: The writing came first, but I think all three of them were…
Postmail with Chloe Caldwell

Chloe Caldwell lives in upstate New York. Her first book of essays, Legs Get Led Astray, was released by Future Tense Books in April 2012. Excerpts can be found on The Rumpus, SmallDoggies, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. She works at a music store and writes a column called “Love & Music” for The Faster Times. She hosts the…
“Marco’s Poem”: An Interview with James Valvis by Jason Teal

James Valvis is the author of How to Say Goodbye (Aortic Books, 2011). His writing can be found in Anderbo, Arts & Letters, LA Review, Nimrod, Rattle, River Styx, and is forthcoming in Hanging Loose, Midwest Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Poetry East, storySouth, and others. His poetry has been featured at Verse Daily and the Best American Poetry website. His fiction has twice…
“I Imagined Myself Punching a Zebra in the Face as Hard as I Could”: An Interview with Sam Pink by Jason Teal

Sam Pink is twenty-eight. He lives in Chicago. He wrote the novel Person and other books. HFR: A recent blog post of yours mentioned that two books are due in August from Lazy Fascist Press, a novel, The No Hellos Diet, and a short story collection, Hurt Others. What can you tell us about them? Did you work on…