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Jacob Kiernan

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 …

The Strangest Thing You’ve Ever Eaten: An Interview with Alexandra Kleeman

Interview by Jacob Kiernan

In Alexandra Kleeman’s newly released debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper Collins, 2015), an algebraically named cast navigates cults, game shows and romance. When the book opens, A’s relationship with her inattentive boyfriend, C, is …

Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories

Book Review by Jacob Kiernan

Calligraphy Lessons: The Collected Stories, by Mikhail Shishkin. Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Mariya Bashkatova, and Sylvia Maizell. Deep Vellum Publishing, 2015. $12, 180 pages.

Mikhail Shishkin, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Russian …

Salad Anniversary

Book Review by Jacob Kiernan

Salad Anniversary, by Machi Tawara. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Pushkin Press, 2015. $14, 112 pages.

Since the end of World War II, the Western appetite for Japanese literature  has grown tremendously, yet most writing being translated from the …

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Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Iran

Call for submissions by Iranian women (trans & non-binary inclusive) writers. Learn more and submit your work here.

New Orleans Review is delighted to announce the publication of its first book, Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
(Bloomsbury 2019).

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