by Vicraj Gill
“This is the strangest thing I know. The more we understand something, the more we know nothing!” Continue reading »
Category Archives: Fiction
Gaston Leroux: A Man of Heaven and Earth
by Nicki Leone
Leroux, having just returned from a long foreign assignment, received a late-night phone call from his editor telling him to hop on the next train to Toulon. Leroux responded with something Gallic and unprintable, slammed down the phone, and decided to become a novelist. Continue reading »
Q&A With Nicole Wolverton
“To say that I had more trouble sleeping while writing the novel is an understatement.” Continue reading »
On Madness and Consensual Reality: Nicole Wolverton’s The Trajectory of Dreams
by Emily St. John Mandel
Lela has drifted very far from the realm of consensual reality, and the book’s considerable tension arises from the question of just how far she will go. She is heartbreaking, because for the moment at least she is lost. Continue reading »
Audio / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
Women, Smart Alecs, and Fatherhood: An Audio Conversation With Shawn Vestal (Part 2)
In part 2 of this audio conversation, Shawn Vestal talks about cross-gender writing, becoming a father in relation to his writing life, and reads from the story “Gulls.” Continue reading »
Audio / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
Opposition and Faith: An Audio Conversation With Shawn Vestal (Part 1)
In an audio conversation, Shawn Vestal talks about faith and and its dark side, family and late-life blooming; and he reads from the collection’s imaginative and poignant opening story. Continue reading »
Shawn Vestal’s God-Filled Idaho
by Melody Nixon
There is a discomfort in realizing books can still illuminate prejudices you didn’t know you had. Shawn Vestal‘s writing has made it into McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction and Tin House among others – all reliable qualifications – but in his energetic, highly imaginative fiction, Vestal draws heavily on his upbringing in the Mormon faith. Continue reading »
