Interviews
A Conversation with ‘Best Debut Short Stories 2021’ Author Pardeep Toor
“Like any career, task, or pursuit, writing is laborious. You have to show up to work every day. Often you have a bad or uninspiring day at work and that’s fine because you get to work again tomorrow.”
“Memoir means working within the confines of your choices”: A Conversation with Gina Frangello
“Finding time to write is what comes hardest. Everything else is easier than that.”
“My personal story needs to give way to something greater”: A Conversation with Anna Qu
“I don’t want the reader to walk away feeling the cruelties that have been inflicted on me; the stake isn’t my personal pain.”
Alone Together: An Interview with Kristen Radtke, Author of ‘Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness’
As we are released from our homes and can start to have dinner with our friends again, it doesn’t mean that the problem of American loneliness is gone or has even really changed.
“See what happens if you say yes”: A Conversation with Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett
“I think that that’s more interesting than saying no.”
“The delight in fiction is not knowing what’s going to happen next”: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen
“Fiction became a way to capture more of what I was seeing around me.”
“I hope people consider the different ways history can be told”: A Conversation with Clint Smith
“Who we are, what our identities and backgrounds and politics are, all of these things animate how we experience a place.”
“I often see a story in an image”: A Conversation with Yang Huang
Elizabeth Graver shares a lively back-and-forth with her former student, Yang Huang, whose third novel, MY GOOD SON, published this May
How Eve L. Ewing Makes Her Stories Fly
“I’m passionate about advocating for young people to engage with literature, with art-making, with storytelling, because those are opportunities I had at a very young age.”
How Writing Can Raise the Dead: An Interview with Lilly Dancyger, author of ‘Negative Space’
“Describing what it feels like for somebody to not be there is a very abstract process. Pretty much this whole book has been trying to figure out how to do that.”