Interview

Kevin Wilson is the best-selling author of The Family Fang, which NPR’s Fresh Air describes as a “revitalizing blast of original thought.” He has been published in Ploughshares, Tin House,…

Gladys Swan is both a writer and a visual artist. She has published two novels, Carnival for the Gods in the Vintage Contemporaries Series, and Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices, nominated by LSU Press for the PEN Faulkner and…

Between 2003 and 2005, David Philip Mullins and Ian Stansel attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where they became fast friends and ongoing readers for one another. David’s debut collection, Greetings from Below, which includes the story “Arboretum,” first appearing in…

Alice Mattison has published six novels, including The Book Borrower and Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn. She has also published four collections of short stories and one collection of poetry. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New…

Jill Sisson Quinn’s essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Quarter After Eight, The Good Men Project, and American Nature Writing 2003.

The third novel of Thomas E. Kennedy’s Copenhagen Quartet appeared in the United States in June 2013, in the United Kingdom in November. The Quartet consists of four independent novels set in the Danish capital, each in a different season…

Notes to self on becoming a multi-award-winning fiction writer who will be termed a genius by the New Yorker: 1) Quit ascendant law career 2) Write for six to seven hours every day for twelve years, publishing an occasional story…

It takes a certain daring—or just plain audacity—to propose a cure for global warming. But that’s what Robert Kunzig and Wallace Broecker advocate in their book Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat—and How to Counter…