Passion, Edited: An Interview with Frederic Tuten
Since the release of his first novel in 1971, Frederic Tuten has charted a singular course through the comparatively choppy waters of late twentieth-century American belles lettres.
Talking to God Again: An Interview with Noor Hindi
I think writing is, in a lot of ways, life-saving work for so many of us that feel like we're walking through the world without a sense of being seen or known or heard.
Bringing the Body into the Room: A Conversation with Chris Belcher
The idea that you can just be in this space of pure intellectual pursuit, without a body to feed or provide shelter for, that just by pursuing these kinds of degrees, you leave your body behind, is a fiction.
Shooting at Nothing: An Interview with Ander Monson
For his new memoir, Predator, Ander Monson watched the eponymous 1987 action flick 146 times.
Very Funny, Even When It's Sad: An Interview with Daisy Fried
Daisy Fried’s most recent book, The Year the City Emptied, is a collection of translations and brilliant off-the-leash renderings of Baudelaire, written in 2020 in Philadelphia during the first year of the COVID pandemic.
Justice, One Way or Another: An Interview with Meredith Doench on “Whereabouts Unknown”
Meredith Doench is a crime writer located in Dayton, Ohio, and best known for her Luce Hansen series.
Lifting Our Skin Up, Looking for Patterns: A Correspondence with Angelo Maneage re: "THE IMPROPER USE OF PLATES"
On the cover of Angelo Maneage’s THE IMPROPER USE OF PLATES are five dark circles—appropriately, very plate-like—set against an off-white background for contrast.
Marxism and Emancipation: An Interview with Dr. Asad Haider
Asad Haider is Assistant Professor of Politics at York University, a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso Books, 2018; reprint: Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology, Verso Books, 2022).
On Dreaming, Fragment, and Intuition: A Conversation with Susan Briante
Susan Briante’s Defacing the Monument has won numerous awards since its publication by Noemi Press in August 2020.
Looking as Discourse: An Interview with Tishon Woolcock
This series explores how more private experiences of looking are (or can become) forms of discourse, of collective exchange.
Brevity Creates Breadth: A Review-Interview with Kalani Pickhart on "I Will Die in a Foreign Land"
When readers need to know a century’s worth of history to comprehend a novel’s dynamics, a fiction writer confronts a task that may appear simple but is actually excruciatingly difficult.
On "Essays Two": An Interview with Lydia Davis
It is easy to take translation for granted. It is easy to appreciate a text only in its current context, to visualize a listed translator as a talented mathematician with some innate knowledge or intuition for what an original author or source text imagined, performing equations to convert languages for our understanding and pleasure.
Collapsing Time: A Conversation with Mike DeCapite
Mike DeCapite’s Jacket Weather is the story of a man in his fifties rekindling a relationship with June, a woman with whom he reveled in New York’s thriving punk scene as a youth.
Love Versus Serious Shit: A Conversation with Matt Mitchell
As a poet living in the world where we’re all currently living—especially as someone coming from a marginalized community—I often find myself drawn toward reading and writing poems that deal with the tragic, with the suffering I’ve endured and seen, and do so with some degree of cynicism and/or anger.