Interviews & Reviews

ACTUALITY IN ACTUALITY: An Interview with Chase Griffin

October 27, 2023

Christina was the John Swartzwelder and Kurt Vonnegut of this book – all of the funniest scenes and lines with the best comedic timing are hers.

XRAY SPECS: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

October 20, 2023

This film is a Freudian’s dream. The way Cheryl constantly offers him milk isn’t exactly subtle.

I WROTE IT ONLY FOR YOU: An Interview with Joshua Mohr

October 13, 2023

At its essence, this story is about existential amnesia. What do we need to remember? What do we want to remember? And what’s the difference between them?

AN EERILY RECURRENT CREDENZA: An Essay on APPARITIONS OF THE LIVING by Dave Fitzgerald

October 6, 2023

No matter how much paper we push around in this life, or the next, or inside the crumbling filing systems of our own minds, the termites are coming for us all.

SEX IS SECONDARY: An Interview with Matthew Binder

September 29, 2023

In retrospect, it’s obvious to me that I’m writing about my desire to feel a part of something greater than myself. I know that’s an impossibility, however.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: All-American Murder

September 22, 2023

All-American Murder isn’t bad, but it’s almost an extraterrestrial product, a movie made for humans by something that has no relationship to the physical universe.

NO EXIT NEEDED: A Review of Danny the Ambulance

September 15, 2023

If the Jury Room is supposed to be some kind of hell, we should all be so lucky to wind up in a hell like this.

MORE WRITERS SHOULD JUST BE DOING THIS FOR FUN: An Interview with Tyler Dempsey

September 8, 2023

Everyone believes there’s something more out there. And if we were just braver, had more time/money/whatever, we’d Don Quixote it up.

SARAN WRAP MAGIC: An Interview with Amy Cipolla Barnes

September 1, 2023

Where neighbors handed warm zucchini bread over fences, a 10-year-old drove me around a farm in a rusty truck, and I most likely met a serial killer.

ELAINE SUN, KRAMER MOON, GEORGE RISING: An Interview with Donald Quist

August 25, 2023

I'm still thinking through and discovering all Seinfeld has, and will, teach me about creative writing, particularly poetic movement, and/or MacGuffins as a narrative technique.