Interviews & Reviews

FOOTNOTES THE READER CAN’T SKIP: An Interview with Brett Biebel

August 4, 2023

What’s the relationship between reality/life/history and stories? When do stories productively enrich our lives, and when do they overtake them to a troubling degree?

A DANCEABLE ROCK NUMBER ABOUT DEATH: An Interview with O.F. Cieri

July 28, 2023

I enjoy the wish fulfillment of making up a controlling, overbearing asshole and then torturing him by making everything go wrong no matter what he does.

AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SHITHEADS: An Interview with Kyle Seibel

July 21, 2023

Kyle experimented with ChatGPT once: “What are twenty-five short story ideas?” The answers it puked out were uniformly terrible, except for one.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: ZARDOZ (1974)

July 14, 2023

I knew I was going to love it when the head started to vomit guns. The tone felt like a Monty Python film. Is that a common comparison?

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.”