by Sonya Chung
“Even if you felt she was wrong about a movie, she was always enlightening—or funny, or maybe rude, or all three at once. And she believed that at his best, a critic could be an artist too.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Author Features
Secretary to the Thousand Things: A Conversation with Jeff Oaks
by Nancy Koerbel
“Quite a few friends who’d already published books told me, with a degree of sympathy, that getting a book out doesn’t really change your life . . .But they were wrong. It did change my life, by which I mean my feeling of my life.” Continue reading
Author Features / Authors / Essays / Excerpts / Fiction / Uncategorized
The Secret Story: K. L. Cook on What’s Hidden
by Joe Schuster
“Maybe all stories are really about secrets and revelations” – K. L. Cook Continue reading
The Vulnerability of Human Dignity: Q&A with Sujatha Gidla
by Shoba Viswanathan
Who wants to live in a society where an evil like the caste system prevails? Untouchables are most directly oppressed by caste, but they are not the only ones it hurts.
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The Best of Us: REMEMBERING PATRICIA DOBLER
by Nancy Koerbel
“that was Patty’s kind of thing, the ordinarily beautiful, and she cooed over all that—she had a way of expressing delight that was genuine and infectious.” Continue reading
Author Features / Excerpts / Features / Interviews / Poetry
Trusting the “I”: Nancy Mitchell on Adjacent Lives, Personae & Final Truths
by Annie Kim
“Every voice in The Out-of-Body Shop is I, even if the story, the body, isn’t.” Continue reading
“Closest to Raw Reality”: Gary Pedler on Memoir, Novel Writing, and a Lifetime of Journals
“I was aware that I was writing about myself as a gay man, while at the same time I knew this wasn’t a ‘gay travel book,’ whatever that might be.” Continue reading
