Check out our recap of 2024’s standout coverage
All in Writers
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Talia Lavin
Logan Royce Beitmen interviews author & journalist Talia Lavin about her new book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, an investigation of the Christian Right’s ascent over the last half-century & the grim vision evangelicals are now attempting to enforce in the United States
JoAnna Novak on DOMESTIREXIA
Isabelle Sakelaris in conversation with poet JoAnna Novak about her latest collection, DOMESTIREXIA
Censored? Shadowbanned? Elizabeth Larison of the NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP Discusses How to Fight Back
Elizabeth Larison, Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, talks in-depth with Logan Royce Beitmen about leading initiatives in advising & educating artists on how to address the presentation of controversial works
The vital restlessness of MARGARET ROSS
A conversation with poet Margaret Ross about her recent collection, Saturday
Catriona Shine discusses the shifting architectures of HABITAT
Author Catriona Shine talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel Habitat
Molly McGhee on JONATHAN ABERNATHY YOU ARE KIND
Molly McGhee talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
Jeff VanderMeer's ABSOLUTION
Jeff VanderMeer explores the failure of language, climate change, the fallibility of human institutions, ecstatic visions, and much more in this extensive interview about his new book, Absolution, the fourth installment from his celebrated Southern Reach series
Ledia Xhoga discusses MISINTERPRETATION
Author Ledia Xhoga talks with Nirica Srinivasan about her debut novel, Misinterpretation
Didi Jackson's MY INFINITY
Poet Didi Jackson talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her new collection My Infinity, an exploration of joy and sorrow ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint
Exploring the underrated sorrows of rejection with TONY TULATHIMUTTE
Author Tony Tulathimutte talks with Nirica Srinivasan about the mosaic of interconnected short stories focused on the "underrated sorrows of rejection" in his new collection, Rejection
Sarah Ghazal Ali discusses THEOPHANIES
Sarah Ghazal Ali in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her vivid debut poetry collection, Theophanies
SACRED MONSTER ~ Chloë Cassens discusses JEAN COCTEAU
Chloë Cassens represents the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest collection of works by iconoclastic French artist Jean Cocteau. In this podcast interview with Logan Royce Beitmen, Cassens discusses Cocteau’s massive cultural influence & her efforts to increase awareness about his life and legacy.
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Julia Hannafin
Author Julia Hannafin in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about their debut novel Cascade
Fascism, queerness, & the making of modern sports: MICHAEL WATERS discusses his book THE OTHER OLYMPIANS
Author Michael Waters discusses his book The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, a very detailed look at the long history of gender identity and testing in sports and many of the major athletes and officials involved in the controversies
CINDY JUYOUNG OK on WARD TOWARD
Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her collection Ward Toward
Ben Shattuck discusses THE HISTORY OF SOUND: STORIES
Author Ben Shattuck talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about his new book The History of Sound: Stories, which features a fantastically unique structure: each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story
Silence as an architect of experience in THE HEARING TEST
Nirica Srinivasan reviews Eliza Barry Callahan’s novel The Hearing Test
Gemma Rolls-Bentley discusses QUEER ART: FROM CANVAS TO CLUB, AND THE SPACES BETWEEN
Gemma Rolls-Bentley talks about her new book Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between & the ways it considers queer art within the context of the current moment
Memory, identity, & synchronicities: Elisa Gabbert's ANY PERSON IS THE ONLY SELF
Writer, poet, and essayist Elisa Gabbert talks in-depth with Nirica Srinivasan about her new essay collection Any Person Is the Only Self