The Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela has published more than thirty books, among which are novels, short story collections, flash fiction, and essays. Widely translated, Valenzuela is the recipient of a number of awards, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim. She …
Interview
Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera is a Mexican author, political scientist, and professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University in New Orleans. He has written several short novels, three of which have been translated into English by Lisa Dillman: Transmigration of Bodies…
Zachary Lazar
I was delighted to get ahold of a Zachary Lazar’s latest novel, Vengeance, a book that takes readers deep inside the horrors of the prison-industrial complex, where we cannot, in good faith, look away. We begin in the notorious …
Stations of the Crisis: An Interview with Anne Gisleson
Anne Gisleson’s debut memoir, The Futilitarians (Little, Brown and Company, 2017), chronicles her year hosting an Existential Crisis Reading Group (ECRG). She and her friends meet monthly for smart conversation and camaraderie. But Gisleson’s book isn’t just about reading …
Margarida Vale de Gato
Margarida Vale de Gato is a Portuguese poet, translator, and Fulbright Scholar. Her first book of poetry, Mulher ao mar (Woman Overboard) was published in 2010, followed by Mulher ao mar retorna (Woman Overboard Returns), and Lançamento (either meaning to …
Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague: An Interview with Carolyn Hembree
Carolyn Hembree was born in Bristol, Tennessee. Her debut poetry collection, Skinny, came out from Kore Press in 2012. In 2016, Trio House Books published her second collection, Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to …
Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight: A Correspondence with Dante Di Stefano
What follows is a series of short letters written back and forth with Dante Di Stefano, whose poetry collection, Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight, was released in 2016 by Brighthorse Books. Dante and I met at Binghamton …
Harold Jaffe
Harold Jaffe is the author of 26 volumes of fiction, docufiction, and nonfiction including Goosestep; Death Café; Sacred Outcast: Dispatches from India; Revolutionary Brain; Induced Coma; Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories; Paris 60; Jesus Coyote; …
Elinor Lipman
Elinor Lipman was born and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, and attended Simmons College. She has published novels and short story and essay collections. Her novel Then She Found Me was made into a movie of the same name, directed …
Brendan Jones: A Gateway that Some Don’t Quite Step All the Way Through
ROOM 220 will host Anya Groner and novelist Brendan Jones on Thursday, September 15, at 7 p.m. at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Avenue). Jones will also be leading a writing workshop at Antenna from 10 a.m. – 3 …
