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..."
Interviews
Interviews with interesting people.
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."
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."
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 with Songwriter Whitney Ballen (Falls)
"I suppose I am really unaware of my writing process because I never really plan on writing anything, it just kind of happens."
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."