Interviews Kim Narby 6/26/25 Kim Narby 6/26/25 Zee Carlstrom on When to Bother Your Editor, the Move-to-the-City or Do-an-MFA Debate, and How Class Rage Fueled Their Debut Novel ‘Make Sure You Die Screaming’ Read More Emma Burger 6/17/25 Emma Burger 6/17/25 Lydi Conklin: On Songwriting, Queerness, Burning Your Life Down, and Their Debut Novel ‘Songs of No Provenance’ Read More Brittany Ackerman 6/12/25 Brittany Ackerman 6/12/25 Elizabeth Hall: On the Romance of Rat Life, Making it as a Twenty-Something, the Excavation of Fantasy, and Her New Novel ‘Season of the Rat’ Read More Sydney Bollinger 6/10/25 Sydney Bollinger 6/10/25 Emma E. Murray: On Exploring the Tender Horror of Motherhood, Darkness in Female Sexuality, and Her Short Story Collection ‘The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions’ Read More Corinne Cordasco-Pak 6/5/25 Corinne Cordasco-Pak 6/5/25 an chang joon: On Imagined Liminal Spaces, the Art of the Short Story Ending, Capitalism as the Locus of Horror, and His Debut Short Story Collection ‘God-Disease’ Read More Danielle Altman 6/3/25 Danielle Altman 6/3/25 Jessamyn Violet: On the Future of Sex, Genre Mashups, Los Angeles as Inspiration, and Her Novel ‘Venice Peach’ Read More Emma Burger 5/29/25 Emma Burger 5/29/25 Nicole Cuffy: On the Allure of Cults, the Trauma of the Vietnam War, Grief, Rage, and Her Novel ‘O Sinners!’ Read More Brittany Ackerman 5/27/25 Brittany Ackerman 5/27/25 Paula Bomer: On the Art of the Character Study, Writing Into Uncomfortable Truths, Embracing the Untraditional, and Her Latest Novel ‘The Stalker’ Read More Gabrielle Grace Hogan 5/20/25 Gabrielle Grace Hogan 5/20/25 Keetje Kuipers: On Fluctuating Value, the Gift of Time, Strap-Ons,and Her New Poetry Collection ‘Lonely Women Make Good Lovers’ Read More Shelby Hinte 5/15/25 Shelby Hinte 5/15/25 Vauhini Vara: On AI’s Place in Literature, Writing into the Zeitgeist, and Her Newest Book ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age’ Read More Kim Narby 5/13/25 Kim Narby 5/13/25 Marisa Crane: On Basketball as Performance, the Dark Side of Perfectionism, the Jock-to-Writer Pipeline, and Their New Book ‘A Sharp Endless Need’ Read More Sydney Bollinger 5/6/25 Sydney Bollinger 5/6/25 Daisy Atterbury: On Negotiating Boundaries, Experimental Writing, Lucy Lippard, and Their Debut Collection ‘The Kármán Line’ Read More Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 5/1/25 Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 5/1/25 Shelby Hinte: On the Power of a Country Song, Revision as Self-Reclamation, Making the Past Alive, and Her Debut Novel ‘Howling Women’ Read More Shze-Hui Tjoa 4/24/25 Shze-Hui Tjoa 4/24/25 CD Eskilson: On Monstrosity, Possibility and Hope, the Future of Trans Poetics, and Their Debut Poetry Collection ‘Scream / Queen’ Read More Corinne Cordasco-Pak 4/15/25 Corinne Cordasco-Pak 4/15/25 Marie-Helene Bertino: On Precise Language, the Blessing of Rejection, and Death-Shaped Entities in Her New Story Collection ‘Exit Zero’ Read More Jessica Bao 4/10/25 Jessica Bao 4/10/25 Shubha Sunder: On the Precarity of Immigration, a Prism of Conversations, and Going from Short Stories to Her Debut Novel ‘Optional Practical Training’ Read More Ashley Rubell 4/3/25 Ashley Rubell 4/3/25 Natalia Theodoridou: On What It Means to Be Saved, the Power of Names, the Stories That Inform Our Characters, and His Debut Novel ‘Sour Cherry’ Read More Ava Sharahy 4/1/25 Ava Sharahy 4/1/25 Mia Arias Tsang: On Small Presses, Messy Queer Heartbreak, and Her Debut Collection ‘Fragments of Wasted Devotion’ Read More Tania Malik 3/27/25 Tania Malik 3/27/25 Freda Epum: On Intersectional Identities, Alienation, the Vicarious Pleasure of House Hunting Reality TV, and Her Memoir ‘The Gloomy Girl Variety Show’ Read More Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 3/25/25 Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 3/25/25 Xhenet Aliu: On Being a First Person Girly at Heart, Obsessions with Sentence Cadence, Writing Working Class Characters, and Her Latest Novel ‘Everybody Says It’s Everything’ Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Kim Narby 6/26/25 Kim Narby 6/26/25 Zee Carlstrom on When to Bother Your Editor, the Move-to-the-City or Do-an-MFA Debate, and How Class Rage Fueled Their Debut Novel ‘Make Sure You Die Screaming’ Read More
Emma Burger 6/17/25 Emma Burger 6/17/25 Lydi Conklin: On Songwriting, Queerness, Burning Your Life Down, and Their Debut Novel ‘Songs of No Provenance’ Read More
Brittany Ackerman 6/12/25 Brittany Ackerman 6/12/25 Elizabeth Hall: On the Romance of Rat Life, Making it as a Twenty-Something, the Excavation of Fantasy, and Her New Novel ‘Season of the Rat’ Read More
Sydney Bollinger 6/10/25 Sydney Bollinger 6/10/25 Emma E. Murray: On Exploring the Tender Horror of Motherhood, Darkness in Female Sexuality, and Her Short Story Collection ‘The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions’ Read More
Corinne Cordasco-Pak 6/5/25 Corinne Cordasco-Pak 6/5/25 an chang joon: On Imagined Liminal Spaces, the Art of the Short Story Ending, Capitalism as the Locus of Horror, and His Debut Short Story Collection ‘God-Disease’ Read More
Danielle Altman 6/3/25 Danielle Altman 6/3/25 Jessamyn Violet: On the Future of Sex, Genre Mashups, Los Angeles as Inspiration, and Her Novel ‘Venice Peach’ Read More
Emma Burger 5/29/25 Emma Burger 5/29/25 Nicole Cuffy: On the Allure of Cults, the Trauma of the Vietnam War, Grief, Rage, and Her Novel ‘O Sinners!’ Read More
Brittany Ackerman 5/27/25 Brittany Ackerman 5/27/25 Paula Bomer: On the Art of the Character Study, Writing Into Uncomfortable Truths, Embracing the Untraditional, and Her Latest Novel ‘The Stalker’ Read More
Gabrielle Grace Hogan 5/20/25 Gabrielle Grace Hogan 5/20/25 Keetje Kuipers: On Fluctuating Value, the Gift of Time, Strap-Ons,and Her New Poetry Collection ‘Lonely Women Make Good Lovers’ Read More
Shelby Hinte 5/15/25 Shelby Hinte 5/15/25 Vauhini Vara: On AI’s Place in Literature, Writing into the Zeitgeist, and Her Newest Book ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age’ Read More
Kim Narby 5/13/25 Kim Narby 5/13/25 Marisa Crane: On Basketball as Performance, the Dark Side of Perfectionism, the Jock-to-Writer Pipeline, and Their New Book ‘A Sharp Endless Need’ Read More
Sydney Bollinger 5/6/25 Sydney Bollinger 5/6/25 Daisy Atterbury: On Negotiating Boundaries, Experimental Writing, Lucy Lippard, and Their Debut Collection ‘The Kármán Line’ Read More
Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 5/1/25 Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 5/1/25 Shelby Hinte: On the Power of a Country Song, Revision as Self-Reclamation, Making the Past Alive, and Her Debut Novel ‘Howling Women’ Read More
Shze-Hui Tjoa 4/24/25 Shze-Hui Tjoa 4/24/25 CD Eskilson: On Monstrosity, Possibility and Hope, the Future of Trans Poetics, and Their Debut Poetry Collection ‘Scream / Queen’ Read More
Corinne Cordasco-Pak 4/15/25 Corinne Cordasco-Pak 4/15/25 Marie-Helene Bertino: On Precise Language, the Blessing of Rejection, and Death-Shaped Entities in Her New Story Collection ‘Exit Zero’ Read More
Jessica Bao 4/10/25 Jessica Bao 4/10/25 Shubha Sunder: On the Precarity of Immigration, a Prism of Conversations, and Going from Short Stories to Her Debut Novel ‘Optional Practical Training’ Read More
Ashley Rubell 4/3/25 Ashley Rubell 4/3/25 Natalia Theodoridou: On What It Means to Be Saved, the Power of Names, the Stories That Inform Our Characters, and His Debut Novel ‘Sour Cherry’ Read More
Ava Sharahy 4/1/25 Ava Sharahy 4/1/25 Mia Arias Tsang: On Small Presses, Messy Queer Heartbreak, and Her Debut Collection ‘Fragments of Wasted Devotion’ Read More
Tania Malik 3/27/25 Tania Malik 3/27/25 Freda Epum: On Intersectional Identities, Alienation, the Vicarious Pleasure of House Hunting Reality TV, and Her Memoir ‘The Gloomy Girl Variety Show’ Read More
Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 3/25/25 Kailey Brennan DelloRusso 3/25/25 Xhenet Aliu: On Being a First Person Girly at Heart, Obsessions with Sentence Cadence, Writing Working Class Characters, and Her Latest Novel ‘Everybody Says It’s Everything’ Read More
