Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full-length poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth […]
Interviews
Interview with Flash Forward host and producer Rose Eveleth
by Sarah Augusta
Rose Eveleth is a producer, designer, writer, and animator. Currently, Rose is the producer and host of Flash Forward, a podcast about the future. Mixing radio drama and science journalism, Flash Forward is a smart and often funny exploration of the potentially sticky consequences of a future scenario, “everything from the existence of artificial wombs, […]
Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout: Invisible on Paper
An estimated six-and-a-half million Mexican-born citizens live and work in the United States without legal authorization. Many have children who were born in the United States and consequently are citizens although their parents are not. Employment statistics reveal that undocumented Mexican male immigrants have a higher percentage of fulltime employment than any other ethnic or […]
Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen: Power & Light
Eric Shonkwiler is the author of two novels and a collection of stories and novellas. The stories in his collection, Moon Up, Past Full (Alternating Current Press, 2015), won a series of honors, including the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, shortlists for the Queen’s Ferry Press Best Small Fictions Prize and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities […]
Garnett Kilberg Cohen Interviewed by Okla Elliott: Freshness, Craft, and Time
Okla Elliott: In the title story of your collection Swarm to Glory, a Jewish girl is placed in a Christian foster home, and the theme of religious affiliation and stereotypes emerge several times. What caused you to choose the situation of foster care as the backdrop for investigating Christian/Jewish relations and stereotypes? Garnett Kilberg Cohen: That story began […]
Jennifer Spiegel interviewed by David Abrams: Adult Anxiety
Sybil Weatherfield is a 30-year-old hot mess. A temp worker in New York City flitting from job to job, Sybil is the riveting main character of Jennifer Spiegel’s debut novel Love Slave (Unbridled Books). She has a boyfriend and is in love with another guy (the lead singer in the band Glass Half Empty), has issues with […]
R. Clifton Spargo interviewed by Okla Elliott: The Lost Chapter
Okla Elliott: You chose the end of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald’s relationship as the focus of your novel. What drew you to that particular portion of their lives? And, more broadly speaking, what drew you to that particular literary couple as opposed to, say, Vivian and T.S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, etc.? R. […]
Alexis M. Smith interviewed by Jennifer Spiegel: Iceberg Theory Chic
Alexis M. Smith is the author of Glaciers (Tin House Books, 2012), her debut novel, which I read (and this seems important) in one day following a month-long dip, or submersion (near drowning), into Moby-Dick. Why mention my Melville antics? Say what you will about the whale epic, but that book is dense. Like swimming in Campbell’s Chunky Sirloin Burger […]
George Saunders interviewed by Raul Clement: An Irreducible Language Object
In a cover story just before its release, The New York Times Magazine described Tenth of December by George Saunders as “the best book you will read this year.” Saunders, the winner of a McArthur Genius Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, is no stranger to success. However, Tenth of December, his fourth collection of stories and seventh book overall, represents […]
Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott: A Multiplicity of Visions
Stephen Kuusisto is the author of Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening and the memoir Planet of the Blind, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He has also published the poetry collections Only Bread, Only Light and Letters to Borges, both out from Copper Canyon Press. Recognized by the New York Times as “a powerful writer with a musical ear for […]
