Witchcraft and Brattiness: An Interview with Amina Cain February 11th, 2020 “Indelicacy” is a work of feminist existentialism, or existentialist feminism—searching, like Lispector, and lucid, like Camus.
Misplaced Logic: An Interview with Joanna Ruocco May 9th, 2017 Hilarious, possibly impervious, Joanna Ruocco is, of all the writers I know, the one who writes most purely in order to write—or so I’ve always imagined. I’ve long wanted to ask her about the impetus behind her wonderfully weird assort…
Not Sorry: An Interview with Jeremy M. Davies March 1st, 2016 Collections of stories often lose steam as they go, because even stories that are great individually can sound too alike when read together. But Jeremy M. Davies’s The Knack of Doing steers far clear of this problem—almost aggressively so. His stor…
The “Splendidly Cranky” Utopian: An Interview with Curtis White December 3rd, 2015 Curtis White first came to public attention as a culture critic with his best-selling The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves (2003). Dubbed “splendidly cranky” by Molly Ivins and “absolutely indispensible” by Slavoj Zizek, The Midd…