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Harold Jaffe

Interview by Tara Stillions Whitehead

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

21.2, Interview by Mary A. McCay

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

Interview, Room 220 by Sara Slaughter

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

Interview by Kristin Sanders

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

Interview by Erin Little

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

Interview by Christopher Louis Romaguera

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 …

Stranger: An Interview with Adam Clay

Interview by Lucia Moreno

Close examination may be how poet Adam Clay approaches the world, but his time seems consumed by continual movement. Clay is the author of two previous poetry collections, A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (2012) and The …

Little Punch Somewhere Soft: An Interview with Barb Johnson

Interview by Jacob Kiernan

What moves a writer to write? The work is laborious. The pay is meager. And readers are a small, fussbudgety bunch. Gore Vidal said that being a writer is essential to one’s nature—one is born a writer, or not. For …

Alex Mar: Okay, Someone’s Making a Blood Offering

Interview, Room 220 by Ari Braverman

Alex Mar’s new book, Witches of America, is a search for meaning, esoteric and otherwise. She takes her reader on a spiritual cross-country road trip from the Bay Area of California to New Orleans, from the prairies of the …

Margaret Eby: Exploring Towns & Homes of the Southern Literary Canon

Interview, Room 220 by Anna Currey


Birmingham, Alabama, native Margaret Eby returned South from her adopted home in New York City to write a travelogue about the towns where the stories of the Southern canon take place, as well as the authors who lived and worked …

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