Interviews
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January 12, 2023 |
A path in Camp Thorpe, Goshen, Vermont / Photo by AdamChandler86 / Flickr Although it’s been nearly twelve years now since Ruth Stone died on November 19, 2011, I’m struck by how profound, poi... -
January 9, 2023 |
Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a writer of novels, short stories, and essays translated into several languages. She is author of the best-selling novel In Dependence (2008) and the multiple short... -
November 21, 2022 |
The Porvoo City Library / Photo by Tuomo Lindfors / Flickr Photo by Anna Kurki At thirty-two, Pajtim Statovci (b. 1990, Kosovo) is widely considered one of Finland’s leading young novelists... -
October 19, 2022 |
Nathalie Handal is lauded as “one of our most diverse and important contemporary poets.” A New Yorker of Mediterranean roots, she was raised in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, and educa... -
October 3, 2022 |
In The Consequences (Graywolf Press, 2022), his third collection of short fiction, Manuel Muñoz continues telling the stories of migrant workers, seekers, and dreamers in the Central Valley... -
September 6, 2022 |
Video still by Bill Viola for the Paris Opera’s production of Tristan und Isolde, 2004/2005. Photo by Kira Perov / Flickr After going for several long walks with Dennis Nurkse in sout... -
August 1, 2022 |
Michelle Mirabella and Catalina Infante Beovic at the Women's March on 8M after the interview. Translator Michelle Mirabella interviews author Catalina Infante B... -
July 27, 2022 |
Over the past decade or so, the Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra (b. 1975) has emerged as one of the most inventive and influential writers of his generation. Named to Granta’s Best of Yo... -
June 21, 2022 |
Photo of David Baker by Katherine Baker With the 2022 publication of Whale Fall (W.W. Norton), his thirteenth book of poetry, David Baker continues to explore the natural world as bot... -
June 8, 2022 |
Photo by Tennessee Reed Since becoming a newspaper columnist at sixteen, Ishmael Reed has been a literary force. The author of over thirty titles, including the acclaimed novel Mumbo... -
May 23, 2022 |
Left: Holly Wilson, Carried in the Wind (2019), 19 x 32 x 3 in., unique cast bronze with patina/ Courtesy of the artist / hollywilson.com Right: Holly Wilson, Girl in the Red Dr... -
May 11, 2022 |
Image Courtesy of National Park Service In the fall of 2021, I taught a special-topics course on Native women writers, featuring the works of Diane Glancy, Louise Erdrich, and Joy Harjo. My st... -
April 25, 2022 |
Photo of Rajiv Mohabir by Jordan Miles During the University of California Riverside’s 45th Writers Week in February 2022, Rajiv Mohabir read from his book of poems ... -
April 21, 2022 |
Eloghosa Osunde and Okwiri Oduor. Photo of Oduor by Chelsea Bieker. It’s hard to argue with Booker Prize–winning author Damon Galgut’s assertion that 2021 was “a great year for African wri... -
April 11, 2022 |
Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Saskatchewan Métis and Cree writer and activist. Her debut novel, Probably Ruby (Hogarth / Penguin Random House), will be published in April 2022 in the US, following... -
April 4, 2022 |
Sandra Cisneros’s success as a poet, short-story writer, novelist, and essayist is tied to her determination to write about others with awareness and love. Her work is populated by powerful people—... -
March 30, 2022 |
Photo by Lee LeFever / Flickr With student participants Leila Bagenstos, Sophia Cunningham, Cassy Fantini, Isolde Gerosa, Jae Tak Kim, and Grace Sewell Until recently, poet Julia Nemi... -
February 16, 2022 |
Comma House. Photo by Tom Little Tuhin Das is a Bengali poet, essayist, activist, and short-story writer. Currently a writer-in-residence of City of Asylum Pittsburgh, he recent... -
February 15, 2022 |
Julie Otsuka / Photo © Jean-Luc Bertini With the 2022 publication of The Swimmers (Knopf), Julie Otsuka has moved into more personal territory, drawing on her experience as a daughter... -
February 14, 2022 |
For many years, better opportunities on foreign shores, political turmoil, and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal have contributed to a large-scale migration to foreign countries. Many Nepalese writers,... -
February 9, 2022 |
When Don Evans, the founding executive director of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, contacted me in August 2019 to contribute a piece for the program that honored Sterling Plumpp with the Fuller Aw... -
February 8, 2022
The creative writing of the twenty-first century will be remembered for having sanctioned the passage of text from paper to digital support. But is it really true that the author’s cards have disappe... -
January 20, 2022 |
Weina Dai Randel burst onto the literary scene a number of years ago with her duology about Empress Wu Zetian, China’s first woman leader. After winning the prestigious Rita Award in 2017 and seein... -
January 5, 2022 |
Victoria Chang’s new collection, Dear Memory, expands the field of the memoir for readers to explore a full-color archive of family photos and historical documents collaged between... -
December 1, 2021 |
Photo by Diane Picchiottino / Unsplash That Famous Abyss (Wunderkammer, 2020) is a book of exclusive interviews with Enrique Vila-Matas by cultural journalist Anna María Iglesia, coverin...
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