Isabelle Sakelaris talks with award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang about her recent collection, A Film in Which I Play Everyone
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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
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
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
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
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
ALAN MICHAEL PARKER
Cartoonist, novelist, poet, and professor Alan Michael Parker discusses his new poetry collection The Age of Discovery
Replay - PAUL YOON
Author Paul Yoon talks about his new novel Run Me to Earth
LUCY SANTE
A conversation with writer Lucy Sante about her new essay collection Maybe the People Would Be the Times
SHIN YU PAI
An interview with poet and artist Shin Yu Pai
CATHERINE LACEY
A talk with author Catherine Lacey about her latest novel Pew
LEILA CHATTI
A conversation with poet Leila Chatti about her debut collection Deluge