by Lisa Peet
“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Features
Making Funny Things Into Art: Q & A with Sari Rosenblatt
by Martha Anne Toll
“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
We All Want to Change the World: Rita Dragonette on the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
by Andy Shi
“Women’s war stories, until recently, were primarily of impact vs combat. Impact affects everyone. We were and have all been impacted by war—and the other big issues in life. I’m very interested in battlefields that aren’t on the front.” Continue reading
Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah
By Alice Stephens
“I’ve been writing all this time, since university. It’s just taken a while to have a book in my hands.” Continue reading
Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
by Martha Anne Toll
“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading
Features / Fiction / Interviews / Nonfiction / Translations
At Home in the Past: Q&A with Lea Singer
Writing my first novel, I felt: the past was drawing nearer, often so close, that it hurt. Continue reading
An Excerpt from Deborah K. Shepherd’s debut novel, So Happy Together
“Peter never stuttered when he was on stage.” Continue reading
