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Revisiting Numbers and Documenting Atlantic City: A Between Books Interview with Joshua Cohen

On May 15, 2013 By Tobias Carroll

Talking Travel Chapbooks and a Sense of Place With Courtney Maum, Aaron Gilbreath, and Bart Schaneman

On May 13, 2013 By Tobias Carroll

Answering Questions With Quotes: An Interview With Benjamin Lytal

On May 8, 2013 By Josh Spilker

About Your Misogynistic Art: An Interview With Judy Berman and Niina Pollari, Editors of It’s Complicated

On April 1, 2013 By Tobias Carroll

GChats From Crappalachia: An Interview With Scott McClanahan

On March 28, 2013 By Polly Bresnick

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A no-bullshit gentleman, Scott McClanahan isn’t afraid to reveal the underbellies of the world, no matter how embarrassing or dirty or stinky or clammy. McClanahan reminds us that it’s essential to take risks. He helps us keep in mind that the human heart can benefit from being scuffled with. He assures us that fear is part of what makes the world go round. His stories grab ahold of us and linger gauzy and ghostlike. But there is no slight of hand at work in McClanahan’s stories. There aren’t any secrets hidden behind curtains. His stories move us because human truths run thick and bloody through the veins of them. The way Scott McClanahan moves people is by moving people. Everything is holy, but that sometimes means everything is tiresome, or terrifying, or overwhelmingly glorious, which is all the more reason to shake the world awake the way McClanahan never fails to do. He seems called to this role, and he makes shit glitter for us with unfaltering grace. I had the pleasure of spending a Sunday evening G-chatting with Scott McClanahan about all manner of things from Jeff Foxworthy to Gertrude Stein to Heaven to ass cracks.

McClanahan will be reading tomorrow at Vol. 1 and Two Dollar Radio’s Thank God it’s Spring event, and then again at Acme Studio for Writers Reading to Writers Reading to Writers.

Fragmented Memories and Revising Badminton: A Conversation with Geneviève Castrée

On March 22, 2013 By Tobias Carroll

Wave Pools, Escapism, and The Creation of “Fight Song”: An Interview With Joshua Mohr

On February 26, 2013 By Jon Reiss

Sometimes it seems like there’s a breed of writer that the current literary world just doesn’t engender anymore. The kind of writer I’m referring to is the type that many of us clung to when we began channeling aspirations that we ourselves could one day be writers. For those of us that didn’t grow up loving books from the start — those of us who, in school, only sunk our teeth into the Orwells or the Huxleys or the writers that seemed a little bit angry, a little bit smarmy, and (though highly intelligent) still seemed charged by a certain youthful energy — these writers are crucial. Somehow inherent in the notion of the intellectual is a sense of defeat, a jaded sense of inexcitability. There’s a lot of it floating around in the literary atmosphere. When we come a across a writer who tells a great story with emotional intention and sagacity, yet is charged with youthful energy and will without being devoid of earnestness, we must stop and give them our attention. There may be a lot of writers in this day and age, but there are not a lot of writers like Joshua Mohr.

Notes on Identity, Location, and the Undefinable: A Between Books Interview With Emily St. John Mandel

On February 25, 2013 By Tobias Carroll

Revisiting Numbers and Documenting Atlantic City: A Between Books Interview with Joshua Cohen

Talking Travel Chapbooks and a Sense of Place With Courtney Maum, Aaron Gilbreath, and Bart Schaneman

Answering Questions With Quotes: An Interview With Benjamin Lytal

About Your Misogynistic Art: An Interview With Judy Berman and Niina Pollari, Editors of It’s Complicated

GChats From Crappalachia: An Interview With Scott McClanahan

Fragmented Memories and Revising Badminton: A Conversation with Geneviève Castrée

Wave Pools, Escapism, and The Creation of “Fight Song”: An Interview With Joshua Mohr

Notes on Identity, Location, and the Undefinable: A Between Books Interview With Emily St. John Mandel

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