Author Q&A: Mary Miller (Biloxi)
"There’s nothing wrong with writing when you feel like it, so long as you feel like it on a somewhat regular basis."
Interviews
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Author Q&A: David Leo Rice (Drifter)
"I think if more adults were in touch with their internal worlds, and proud of this fact, there’d be much less conflict in the external world."
Interview: Alix Ohlin, Author of We Want What We Want
"I marvel at the accomplishments of other writers and feel called to write back in response, which is the whole reason I started writing in the first place. That’s the most helpful thing, and the most constant."
Interview: David Coogan (Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail)
"That’s why prisoners are able to write, despite the oppression, the depravation, the discrimination. They’re able to write because they can imagine community."
Interview: Dr. Jacqueline O’Connor, Author of Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams’s America
How did Tennessee Williams' legal knowledge influence his work?
Author Q&A: Vi Khi Nao (Umbilical Hospital)
"That book might make you die a little and don’t forget to eat durian ice cream after reading it."
Author Q&A: Alan Michael Parker (Christmas in July)
"I want to believe that reading tunes the mind, that empathy results from the connections forged between a reader and a character..."
Author Q&A: Ross Simonini (The Book of Formation)
"I think the process should be an expression of the product, and vice versa."
Author Q&A: Giano Cromley (What We Build Upon the Ruins)
"You have to be willing to walk right up to the line that divides emotion and melodrama."
Author Q&A: Kevin Canty (The Underworld)
"Playing bad guitar solos is satisfying in a way that writing bad short stories is not."