Isabelle Sakelaris talks with award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang about her recent collection, A Film in Which I Play Everyone
All in Writers
The tensions between drifting & survival in AMBER CARON'S stories
Amber Caron talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her striking new short story collection Call Up the Waters
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lande Yoosuf
Lande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer. In this interview, she discusses her unusual approach of turning her short film, Second Generation Wedding, into a full-length screenplay, then adapting that screenplay into her novel, Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian, Muslim Family in the New York Diaspora
Why CHRISTOPHER BREAN MURRAY lies to tell truths
Poet Christopher Brean Murray talks about his collection, Black Observatory, & he discusses his intuitive methods of fabrication & questioning to discover truths in his works
Novelist LYDIA KIESLING talks about class, power, politics, & desire
Author Lydia Kiesling talks about the elements of class, power, politics, & desire in her new novel Mobility
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ discusses her literary life at the wheel
Prolific author Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses her latest publication, My Life at the Wheel, a book of personal essays that she considers a memoir in collage form
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ aja monet
A full recording of our recent online edition interview between poet, lyricist, writer, and community organizer aja monet and Logan Royce Beitmen
Why aja monet's poems do what they do
Poet, writer, lyricist, & community organizer aja monet speaks about her Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for her debut when the poems do what they do, those who’ve inspired her, what moves her to action, & why literature liberates
Highlights of 2023
A look back at some of the notable INTERLOCUTOR interviews, reviews, and podcast episodes from 2023
The implications of AI & artmaking in DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN?
Author Sean Michaels discusses his new novel Do You Remember Being Born?, which explores the implications of AI-assisted co-authorship of creative works
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Blaise Agüera y Arcas
An interview with leading AI researcher, author, & TED speaker Blaise Agüera y Arcas about his new book, Who Are We Now?
Poet Paisley Rekdal discusses her book WEST: A TRANSLATION
Poet Paisley Rekdal talks about her book West: A Translation
Belonging and Not-Belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ROMAN STORIES
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Roman Stories, the new short story collection by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Harper Simon
An in-depth discussion with author/musician Harper Simon about his ambitious new multimedia project, Meditations on Crime, comprised of years-long collaborations with many high-profile musicians, artists, and writers
A Reckoning With God in Lauren Groff’s THE VASTER WILDS
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Lauren Groff’s new novel The Vaster Wilds
Modern Ambition & Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Booker Prize-winner Eleanor Catton’s recent ecological novel Birnam Wood
The linguistic imageries of GABRIELLE BATES
Poet Gabrielle Bates discusses her new and well-regarded poetry collection Judas Goat
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Adele Bertei
A conversation with singer, songwriter, writer, & director Adele Bertei about Twist: An American Girl, her new memoir covering her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, and her often risky but also sometimes jubilant process of self-discovery and survival
Adele Bertei discusses TWIST: An American Girl, her wrenching & poignant new memoir
Singer, songwriter, writer, and director Adele Bertei talks about the decades-long journey of writing Twist, her new memoir covering her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, and her often risky but also sometimes jubilant process of self-discovery and survival
ALICE FULTON'S poetic coloraturas
An interview with poet Alice Fulton about her new collection Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems