Interviews & Reviews

OUR MONSTROUSNESS AS A TEMPLATE: An Interview with B.R. Yeager

June 30, 2023

At my most pessimistic I’ve worried that this collection is akin to charging people to watch me at the gym; when I’m more optimistic, it feels like I’m just flexing in different genres.

I’M JUST LIKE EVERY INSECURE WRITER: An Interview with Drew Buxton

June 23, 2023

There was this thing near San Antonio when I was in high school called the Elmendorf Beast that killed livestock. It turned out it was just a coyote with mange.

MY IDEA OF SELF IS SELF-INFLICTION: Jared Daniel Fagen in conversation with Vi Khi Nao

April 21, 2023

I don’t feel free, Vi. Never have. I know you don’t either. I don’t know anyone who does, or has. Maybe nothing is, nor should it be.

CALVIN WESTRA’S “DONALD GOINES” REVIEWED by Conor Hultman

November 17, 2022

What Westra does is this brilliant magic trick: he takes these simple sentences, with their insouciant humor, and stacks them like bricks.

CENTOVIEW WITH DAVID WOJCIECHOWSKI by Evan Williams

November 10, 2022

I thought the world would understand. But no.

WRITING BY EAR: Dashiel Carrera interviewed by Kira K. Homsher

October 4, 2022

Transfixed by the odd turns and cadence of its speech, each day I set a timer and kept writing until the alarm went off. This approach no doubt held its roots in my background recording music: I thought of these writing sessions like performances, called “takes.”

THE WORSER PERSON IN THE WORLD: STEPHANIE LACAVA’S I FEAR MY PAIN INTERESTS YOU by JC Holburn

September 8, 2022

LaCava's story straddles a tenuous faith that through constant debasement and submission a breakthrough can occur, undergirded by a mind/body conundrum: if the pain isn't felt, is an uninvited infliction technically still misconduct? Answer: yes, yes it is.