Interview
Ashley Longshore
Fred Hersch
The Manifesto Handbook
Julian Hanna has read and pored over manifestos for decades. His new book on the subject, The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form, will be published by Zero Books in January 2020. From the island of Madeira, …
Mira Ptacin
The author of the acclaimed memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press 2016) and The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright 2019), Mira Ptacin has written for NPR, Guernica, New York, Tin House, and …
Peg Alford Pursell
In A Girl Goes into the Forest (Dzanc Books, 2019), award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell illuminates the many faces of love and loss in 78 cross-genre stories and fables. Each hybrid flash immerses readers in the complex desires and …
Harold Jaffe
Harold Jaffe is the author of 28 books, as well as many shorter works in Best American Short Stories, Chicago Review, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, among other venues. He has won two NEA grants in fiction and two Fulbright …
Sister Helen Prejean
Anti-death penalty advocate and author of Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean is the rock star of nuns. At least that is how I think of her. We met years ago through a personal connection and have been close …
Gordon Lish
“I believe that we all want to stick out in the world,” Gordon Lish once said, “that the least of us has a profound impulse to distinguish himself from everyone else.” “Sticking out” is the least of Gordon Lish’s accomplishments. …
Scott McWaters
With Abraham Smith, Scott McWaters is co-author of Tuskaloosa Kills, a book of lyrical prose about living and teaching in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His fiction has appeared in many journals, including Caketrain, Carolina Quarterly, New Orleans Review, NANO Fiction, …









