INTERVIEW: Catherine Lacey, author of Nobody Is Ever Missing
Catherine Lacey’s debut novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing (FSG Originals), was released this summer to wide acclaim. It’s a difficult book to describe. A young woman named Elyria leaves New York and her...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Mark Doten, author of The Infernal
Last month, Graywolf Press released Mark Doten’s debut novel, The Infernal. A critic for the New York Times Book Review called it “the most audaciously imaginative political novel I’ve ever read.” Our...
View ArticlePitching Chaos, an interview with Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day
This week marks the release of Loving Day, the new novel from Mat Johnson, author of Pym, Drop, Hunting in Harlem, Incognegro, and others. Johnson and I spoke last week on Skype. I caught him in his...
View ArticleThe Professional Observer, an interview with Theo Schell-Lambert, author of...
Theo Schell-Lambert’s debut novel, The Heart of the Order, is out next week from Little A. In it, we find the journal entries of Blake “Xandy” Alexander, a major league ballplayer with a blown-out...
View ArticleThe Greatest Game in Literary History: chatting with author Mitchell Jackson...
In a few days – Saturday, June 20th at 3pm – the National Book Foundation is putting on a basketball game. Let the strangeness sink in: the presenter of the National Book Awards is pitting writers...
View ArticleA Conversation About American Writers & Palestine
Last month, OR Books released Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine. The anthology, edited by the novelist Ru Freeman, includes contributions from a host of esteemed writers,...
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