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David Keplinger: It Starts in the Middle and Ends in the Middle

Interview by Amy Wright


MILTON, BLIND and useless, visited the office of employment in Malebolge. He’d had it with paradise, this sitting around doing nothing to the tunes of Petrarch. There is no devil as we’ve come to think. In the offices and offices

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John Glassie

Interview, Room 220 by John Sebastian

{From Press Street’s Room 220}

Athanasius Kircher, a seventeenth-century German Jesuit and self-styled “master of a hundred arts,” is credited with inventing the megaphone, a pre-cursor to the computer, and (perhaps) a cat piano. His intense curiosity about the …

Nathaniel Rich: None of the Bad News is Made Up

Interview, Room 220 by Nathan C. Martin

{From Press Street’s Room 220}

Someone quipped at last weekend’s Tennessee Williams Festival that Nathaniel Rich’s new novel, Odds Against Tomorrow (FSG, 2013), was the best Katrina book set in New York City. This observation conceals a degree of …

Daniel Brook: St. Petersburg was a Disneyland

Interview, Room 220 by Nick Jenisch

{From Press Street’s Room 220}

Built as windows to the West, the cities of St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai each represent the “instant city” of their region—created by the will of a few, yet wielding an outsized influence …

Veronica Kavass: Artists in Love

Interview, Room 220 by Taylor Murrow

{From Press Street’s Room 220}
Portrait of Kavass (and animal) by Anthony Scarlati

Veronica Kavass will present her new book, Artists in Love: From Picasso & Gilot to Christo & Jeanne-Claude, A Century of Creative and Romantic Partnerships, at …

Nicholas Montemarano: The Book of Why

Interview by Lindsey Silken

Nicholas Montemarano’s latest book, The Book of Why, tells the story of what happens when a believer is put to the ultimate test. Self-help author Eric Newborn preaches the power of a positive mind to heal all. When his …

David Shields: Talking Fakery

Interview by Stirling Noh

Since his book, Remote (1996), David Shields has been in hot pursuit of lies and truths that help us decode a modern reality that can seem a cruel, wired hallucination of publicity, exhibitionism, and spiritual chaos. He is a restless …

Kathleen Alcott: The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets

Interview by Ryan E. Mitchell

Born and raised in Northern California, Kathleen Alcott studied in Southern California, lived in San Francisco, and presently resides in Brooklyn. Her work appears in American Short Fiction; Slice; Explosion Proof; The Rumpus, Rumpus Women Vol. 1…

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