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 …
Interview
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 …
Caroline Randall Williams’ Lucy Negro, Redux
Caroline Randall Williams is a poet, cookbook author, and young adult novelist. She received her MFA from the University of Mississippi, where she co-authored the Phillis Wheatley Award-winning The Diary of B.B. Bright, Possible Princess and the NAACP Image Award-winning …
Mournful Adventure: An Interview with Peyton Burgess
The Fry Pans Aren’t Sufficing (Lavender Ink, 2016), the first story collection by Peyton Burgess, proves that a story about disaster relief can be whimsical and a story about a woman giving birth to a koala can be darkly poignant. …
Spirits, Hucksters, and Parlor Games: An Interview with Adrian Van Young
Adrian Van Young’s debut novel Shadows in Summerland (ChiZine Publications, 2016) begins with William Mumler, a spirit for photographer, in prison as he is awaiting trial. Mumler has been charged twice, once with fraud for not actually capturing spirits …
