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Literature
Interviews with writer of creative fiction and non-fiction about their new books.
November 26, 2024
Prayers of a Heretic
In the poetry collection Prayers of a Heretic (Plain View Press, 2013), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub explores the "crime" of heresy and the condition of exist…
November 26, 2024
Dazzling
Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023). Treasure and Ozoemena are young Nigerian girls forced to deal with spir…
November 26, 2024
Yr Dead
Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Yr Dead (McSweeney's Books, 2024), longlisted for The National Book Award and P…
November 21, 2024
All of Our Stories Were War Stories
Imagine growing up between Sacramento, California and Logar, Afghanistan; you hear stories about war, watch coverage of the United States’ War on Terr…
November 20, 2024
The Antagonist
Today I spoke with Emily Dinova about her new novel The Antagonist (Bruce Scivally, 2024). Dinova, a psychoanalytic candidate working towards a licen…
November 20, 2024
Solace
How do we become the persons we are? Cornelia Maude Spelman's Solace (Jackleg Press, 2024) seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional …
November 19, 2024
The Jewel of the Blues
Life is tough for people of color in the early twentieth century—not only in the Southern states, which have put Reconstruction firmly behind them in …
November 17, 2024
Naked City: A Graphic Novel
Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters ha…
November 14, 2024
Ruth Vanita
A Slight Angle (India Viking: 2024), the newest novel from Indian writer Ruth Vanita, is a story about love. Difficult love–her six characters are gro…
November 12, 2024
Next Stop
Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024) A hole opens in the universe and suddenly consumes a building…
November 7, 2024
Aspire to Magic but End Up With Madness
What happens when a novelist wants “nonsense and joy” but his characters are destined for a Central European sanatorium? How does the abecedarian form…
November 5, 2024
The Causative Factor
Sparks fly in Megan Staffel’s novel, The Causative Factor (Regal House 2024), when Rachel is randomly paired with Rubiat, a fellow student, for an ass…
November 3, 2024
Sigmundur and the Golden Ring
Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his attention to the history and culture of the Faroe …
October 29, 2024
The Waters: A Novel
Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown daug…
October 28, 2024
Our Narrow Hiding Places (Ecco, 2024), Revisionaries (Quirk Books, 2024)
Kristopher grew up in Lincroft, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from C…
October 25, 2024
To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi
An unforgettable horse gallops through the pages of Kaveh Akbar’s best-selling novel Martyr! (2024), but it is a figurative hastening toward failure a…
October 24, 2024
Earlyfate
Pip Property is no stranger to disaster. Typically, they’ve got a plan, but now Dallyangle’s favourite dandy & part-time criminal is locked in the mor…
October 22, 2024
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch
It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden can…
October 20, 2024
The Aftermath
It's been almost five years since a wrathful extraterrestrial called Rex perpetrated a mass shooting that caused hundreds of millions of people to tak…
October 17, 2024
Landed
In her latest memoir, Landed: A Yogi's Memoir of Places & Poses (2024, Vine Leaves Press), American-born Jennifer traces her journey-both on and off …