“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. …
Interview
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, …
Taylor Mali
Taylor Mali has authored three collections of poetry: What Learning Leaves, The Last Time as We Are, and Bouquet of Red Flags. He received the 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize for The Whetting Stone and the 2017 Quercus Review …
Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Appanah is a Mauritian-French author of several novels. At present, four of these have been translated into English from the original French: Waiting for Tomorrow, The Last Brother, and Tropic of Violence (forthcoming) were translated by Geoffrey …
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Vietnamese-American author and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, was a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2017. His works include The Sympathizer, which was awarded …
Luisa Valenzuela
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 …
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 …
