by Shoba Viswanathan
“We hear that we must stay relevant to be read. I think that as long as we explore our humanness in our work, we can’t help but be relevant.” Continue reading
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FIVE in BLOOM: Latter-Year Reads
by Mollie Weisenfeld
Here are books publishing in the latter half of the year. Please set yourself up for a little gift in the mail and pre-order these fantastic Bloomers. Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Fiction / Go Figure
GO FIGURE: Gods’ Eye View
By Susan Sechrist
“Each character’s struggle to find equilibrium between fate and wish makes the reader also long for a glimpse of the larger underlying structure of it all.” Continue reading
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Prophecy in Pieces: A Q&A with Brian Castleberry on America Past, Present, and Future
by Andy Shi
“If in these characters you recognize your own psychosis, if the plot at large seems less redolent of the Red Scare of the 1950s and resembles more today’s sociopolitical bedlam, you are not wrong.” Continue reading
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“Don’t Apologize. Write the Story You Want to Write”: Q&A with Nadeem Zaman
by Alice Stephens
“If mangoes, arranged marriages, and terrorists will make my stories mainstream for big publishing, then, well, we’re at an impasse.” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Fiction / Go Figure / Interviews / Nonfiction / Poetry
GO FIGURE: Intersections with Poet Alice Major
By Susan Sechrist
“…numbers have this interesting quality—they are abstractions, used for a fairly narrow purpose: to signify quantities. But they’re also words, patterns of sound. And words make linkages all through our brains. That capacity for making long-distance connections is at the heart of metaphor.” Continue reading
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“It Was Through Open Mics That I Began to Feel My Anger Was Acceptable”: Q&A with Julayne Lee
by Alice Stephens
“My redemption was to recognize the spiritual abuse and walk into spaces that know how to embrace me without judgment.” Continue reading
