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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Category Archives: Fiction
Sophia Chang Is, in Fact, the Baddest Bitch in the Room
by Lisa Peet
“I need you to look at me and the assumptions that you make, and I’m going to obliterate all of those stereotypes and all your preconceived notions.” 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
“We Have All Experienced Some Kind of Heartbreak”: Q&A with Judith Teitelman
by Shoba Viswanathan
“I would often joke, although I really did think it was the truth, that if I pulled out the Hindu God, who is both narrator and character in my story, and replaced Him with a vampire or a zombie, my manuscript would have sold immediately.”
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Captivated by Prague: the Writing of Jeffrey Condran
by Evelyn Somers
“We leave home and shed the identity we’re compelled to inhabit in our daily lives. At the same time, we’re not able to fully inhabit the place we’ve journeyed to. The result is an emotional and intellectual space we have unprecedented control over, but one with more room for self-invention.” 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
