Hayley Cranberry Small (she/her) is an Artist, Urban Planner, and Ceramicist working out of Brooklyn, NY. They started Lutte Collective, a platform for highlighting disabled and chronically ill artists, in 2017. Corey Durbin: Thank you so much for taking time to talk with us, could you start by telling us a little bit about yourself […]
Interviews
Interview with Hayley Cranberry Small, Artist and Founder of Lutte Collective
In Conversation with Leslie Diuguid of Du-Good Press, the First and Only Black Female Owned Fine Art Printshop in New York
by Corey Durbin
The following interview was dictated from a video conversation that took place on January 28, 2021. Leslie Diuguid: I can’t wear these. (removing headphones) Corey Durbin: I can’t hear you. LD: (muffled) . . . blah blah blah blah CD: Okay, I got you. LD: Okay, here I am, but yeah, that’s the disappointing thing. […]
The Tender Satire of Gregory Barnes’ The Touch of the Master’s Hand
by Emily Brown
Gregory Barnes’ The Touch of the Master’s Hand is a Mormon movie, a twelve-minute short about a young missionary ashamed of his masturbation habit. It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction. Despite its look into the cultural oddity of Mormonism, the film is relatable […]
Dance, Ghosts, and the End of the World: An Interview with Emily St. John Mandel
by Nathan Winer
Emily St. John Mandel is a novelist originally from British Columbia. The author of five novels, her fourth, Station Eleven (2014), tells the story of life before and after a world-shattering pandemic, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award, as well as the winner of the Arthur C. Clark […]
George Saunders on A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by Brianna Di Monda
There’ve been plenty of books on craft published by acclaimed writers before A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, but none have been infused with such belief in the capacity of fiction to change its readers, such revelation of the tricks of the craft, or such empathy for future writers. George Saunders has been […]
Kiran Bhat in Conversation with Aruni Kashyap
Aruni Kashyap is a writer, editor, and translator. He has published two works of fiction in English (The House of a Thousand Stories, Viking/ Penguin Random House, 2013 and His Father’s Disease, Westland, 2019), one work of fiction in his mother tongue, Assamese, (Noikhon Etia Duroit, Panchajanya Books, 2019) and he has edited an anthology […]
The Lie You Buy: An Interview with Koa Beck, author of White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
by Sophia Kaufman
Koa Beck is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s The Takeaway. Previously, she was the executive editor of Vogue.com and the senior features editor at MarieClaire.com. For her reporting on gender, LGBTQ rights, culture, and race, she has spoken at Harvard Law School, Columbia Journalism School, The New […]
Painting to Empower: An Interview with Artist Harmonia Rosales
by Aya Kusch
Ever since she began her art career, Rosales’s main artistic concern has been focused on black female empowerment in western culture. Her paintings depict and honor the African diaspora. The artist is entirely open to the ebb and flow of contemporary society which she seeks to reimagine in new forms of aesthetic beauty, snuggled somewhere […]
Interview with Salvation Day Author Kali Wallace
by Chase Erwin
Kali Wallace was born and raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She attended Brown University, where she took an undergraduate degree in Geology, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she completed a Ph.D. in Geophysics. Additionally, she is a graduate of the prestigious Clarion Workshop for SFF writers. Her short fiction has appeared in a […]
Sam Cohen Interviewed by Raki Kopernik: Queer Jewish Writers
In Sarahland, a collection of stories woven together by characters named Sarah, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us. The cast of Sarahs finds ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and they discover new possibilities for life itself. In each Sarah’s refusal to adhere […]
