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Interview: Ashley Whitaker

August 1, 2025

  In Ashley Whitaker’s hilarious, satirical, and at times devastating debut novel, Bitter Texas Honey, we follow Joan, a recent college graduate with an Adderall problem who wants nothing more than to be a writer. Her biggest obstacle? She’s plagued…

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Image is the book cover for "The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo" by Karen Babine. Title card for the new interview with Karen Babine.

Hybrid Interview: Karen Babine

July 30, 2025

  Essay by Abby Manzella • In Karen Babine’s latest memoir, The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo (Milkweed 2025), the author preps her Scamp camper and drives from her home in Minnesota to the Acadian coast of…

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Image is the book cover for the interview for "Leave: A Postpartum Account" by Shayne Terry. Title card for the new interview with Shayne Terry.

Interview: Shayne Terry

July 25, 2025

  On an early spring day in Flatbush, I sat down with my friend and neighbor, Shayne Terry. Our five-year-olds went out with their fathers while we talked about Terry’s debut book, Leave: A Postpartum Account, which came out this…

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Interview: Jesse Lee Kercheval

May 30, 2025

  Poet, translator, memoirist, fiction writer, and visual artist Jesse Lee Kercheval’s recently released graphic memoir French Girl portrays seventeen episodes from throughout Kercheval’s life, rendered in vibrant color by Kercheval herself. It showcases the powerful immediacy of Kercheval’s twenty…

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Image is the book cover for FOOD PORN by Sienna Liu; title card for the new interview with Kit Lea Cheang.

Conversations Between Friends: Sienna Liu and Kit Lea Cheang

May 28, 2025

  “In books you don’t usually get to know what the protagonists eat for each meal,” Sienna Liu’s narrator in Food Porn observes. “And because everything happens off-stage, whether those have been hot hearty meals or flimsy flippant meals is…

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Image is the book cover for RUINED A LITTLE WHEN WE ARE BORN by Tara Isabel Zambrano; title card for the new flash interview with Rebecca Loggia.

Flash Interview: Tara Isabel Zambrano

May 23, 2025

  What does it mean to be “ruined a little when we are born”? Writer and engineer Tara Isabel Zambrano searches for the answer to that question in her newest collection of short stories, Ruined a Little When We Are…

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Image is the book cover for HER NEW EYES by T. J. Martinson; title card for the new interview with Kari Shemwell.

Interview: T. J. Martinson

May 21, 2025

  In T. J. Martinson’s forthcoming novel, Her New Eyes, an experimental eye transplant with unexpected side effects upends the life of a sixty-eight-year-old florist living in modern-day Indiana. Soon after the procedure, the protagonist, Susan, begins receiving sporadic visions…

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Image is the book cover for I'LL GIVE YOU A REASON by Annell López; title card for the new interview with Marguerite Sheffer.

Interview: Annell López

May 2, 2025

  I had the pleasure of chatting with Annell López, author of the award-winning debut short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason over coffee after work in New Orleans, where we both live and write. I’ll Give You a…

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Image is the book cover for WHISKEY TENDER by Deborah Jackson Taffa; title card for the new interview with Gabriel Mosely.

Hybrid Interview: Deborah Jackson Taffa

March 28, 2025

  Essay by Gabriel Moseley • I had the great pleasure of meeting Deborah Jackson Taffa at the Vermont Studio Center in October 2023, where she was the Visiting Writer. It was stick season—the dismal threshold between the time of…

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Image is the the book cover for GOOD WOMEN by Halle Hill; title card for the new interview with Courtney Harler.

Interview: Halle Hill

March 20, 2025

  We are thrilled to announce Halle Hill, author of the award-winning debut short story collection, Good Women, as the guest judge for the CRAFT 2025 Short Fiction Prize. In celebration of the contest’s launch, Halle Hill generously granted Editor…

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