A Conversation with Diana Kirk, Author of Licking Flames
"My book is...the story of a woman that takes life by the balls and squeezes everything out of it."
Author Interviews
Interviews with writers.
On James Jones and the Limits of “Eternity”: An Interview with Tony Williams
There’ve been other negative eras in American history, but there’s always been that spirit of resilience and resistance.
Interview: Celeste Ng, Author of Everything I Never Told You
"Creating some kind of art...is as close to leaving your brain behind in a jar as you're going to get."
Interview: Poet Joanne Dominique Dwyer (Belle Laide)
"Too much of our human existence is based on making money and getting errands done. It’s such a waste of the gift of life, not to celebrate and bring magic and mystery into the everyday."
Author Q&A: Ben Tanzer (Lost in Space)
"To be competitive and on, all of the time, involves discipline and schedule, a lot of super-focused manic intensity, and the need to ignore outside distractions, all of which is huge for writing."
Vintage Attraction: A Happy Hour Interview with Charles Blackstone
"I think I wanted characters that rejected that sort of accepted protocol. How you meet, how long you remain skeptical, when you submit to love, or at least the idea of love."
Author Q&A: Noah Cicero (Best Behavior)
"I believe if you read a lot, your mind learns the ability to play different games or see different options in every situation that non-readers might not see."
What Changes Everything: 5 Questions with Masha Hamilton
"Telling one’s own story is as important to a certain kind of survival as food and shelter."
Interview: Angela Jackson-Brown, Author of Drinking from a Bitter Cup
"So often as writers, our first instinct is to write about some far off distant place that we know nothing about because we think where we came from is not interesting enough."
Interview: Poet Jillian Weise (The Book of Goodbyes)
"I’m all for noir. What is a cyborg poet to do? If I’m comic, then I play into the carnival show. If I’m tragic, then I reinforce centuries of pity for the disabled figure in literature. Noir warps the comic and the tragic."