Stabbing the Dark: An Interview with Charles Holdefer
[Earlier work is] like seeing an old photograph. Yes, that’s me all right, but I’m not sure I’m that person anymore.
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Made to Break Your Heart: An Interview with Richard Fellinger
Richard Fellinger is an award-winning short story writer and former journalist who teaches writing at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. His story collection, They Hover Over Us, won the 2011 […]
Becoming the Blue Heron: An Interview with Terri Kirby Erickson (by Curtis Smith)
Writing poetry in general is one way to make sense of it all, to break up what is vast and essentially unknowable, into smaller, more digestible pieces.
Novel Dreams: An Interview with Dana Cann (by Curtis Smith)
The novel’s not nearly as bleak as that might sound. It’s about grief, sure, but it’s really about overcoming grief and the arduous path to healing.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine): An Interview with Jeannine Hall Gailey (by Curtis Smith)
When crisis comes, we naturally want to build up and protect love above all.
Review: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (Ig Bookmarked Series) by Curtis Smith (reviewed by Michael Shattuck)
When he describes Slaughterhouse-Five’s themes in larger contexts, it’s like hearing that great English teacher you had delve into a exegesis with buoyant intensity.
The Heart of Darkness: An Interview with Sheryl Monks (by Curtis Smith)
I want to believe in the unseeable, the unknowable. I was exploring, in this story and others in the collection, with the idea of how far some of us will go to find something we can actually believe in, and why, for some us, believing in darkness is less terrifying than believing in nothing at all.
Kernels of Truth: An Interview with Dawn Leas (by Curtis Smith)
Dawn Leas is the author of a full-length collection, Take Something When You Go (Winter Goose Publishing, 2016), which addresses the myriad of intersections found in relationships as life unfolds […]
Live During Wartime: An interview with Brian Newsome (by Curtis Smith)
Brian Newsome is Associate Professor of History and newly-appointed Dean for Curriculum and Assessment at Elizabethtown College. He earned his PhD from the University of South Carolina and teaches modern […]
Interview: Third Point Press
We want to read stories that show us the absolutely true moments all people face, but in a way that people are oftentimes scared to admit happen.
