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
Category Archives: Interviews
Authors / Fiction / Go Figure / Interviews
GO FIGURE: Unexpected Turbulence
By Susan Sechrist
The perception is that the underpinnings of science, numbers and math, are rigid and dull and anything that comes from them is rigid and dull. The basic underpinning of realistic fiction is that people must behave in ways that humans behave in real life… that underpinning is rigid and dull, too, but what comes from it can be glorious and inspiring. The same is true for what comes from numbers and math… Continue reading
Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
“You’ll Never Know If You Don’t Try”: Q&A with Melanie S. Hatter
by Alice Stephens
“My hope lies in the youth who are politically active, who are much more open-minded, who see all people as human beings.” Continue reading
Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons: Q & A with Jocelyn Cullity
by Evelyn Somers
“I also wanted to write about the women who never show up in historical writing more generally. Sometimes in our histories the women disappear altogether. This mysterious—actually ridiculous—absence of women at key historical moments became crucial to me.” 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
Giving Herself Three Years: Jennifer Wisner Kelly
by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
I gave the process three years and decided that if I hadn’t found a publisher by then, I would consider that particular project done. Continue reading
Features / Fiction / Interviews / Nonfiction / Poetry / Translations
A Room Beneath the Sky: World, Self and Travail–Q&A with Maylis De Kerangal
by Maddie King
“I wanted to focus on … the fascinating yet paradoxical idea that work is at the same time a place where one is dominated and exploited, and a way to find personal fulfillment.” Continue reading
