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Category Archives: Author Features

There’s a Kind of Magic in Blooming Late: Q & A with Morowa Yejidé
Author Features / Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews

There’s a Kind of Magic in Blooming Late: Q & A with Morowa Yejidé

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Alice Stephens

“There is no writing life—there’s just your life and how writing fits into it.” Continue reading →

Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah
Author Features / Authors / Debut Authors / Fiction / Interviews

Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

By Alice Stephens

“I’ve been writing all this time, since university. It’s just taken a while to have a book in my hands.” Continue reading →

Mr. Fing Goes to Hell: Q&A with Y.S. Fing, son of D. Selby Fing
Author Features / Authors / Debut Authors / Poetry / Uncategorized

Mr. Fing Goes to Hell: Q&A with Y.S. Fing, son of D. Selby Fing

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

by Tyler Gore

“Multiple layer allegory was Dante’s great gift to me, but I mixed it up with my experience, my particular philosophical tendency/preference — irony with love…” Continue reading →

Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By
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Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Alice Stephens • 3 Comments

By Martha Anne Toll

“It came in a sudden gust, the thought that I could give it all up, throw everything overboard, ditch the career in social justice that I truly loved and that was close to forty years in the making, and do what had been calling me for decades: write full time.” Continue reading →

Discipline and Magic: Q & A with Karen Craigo
Author Features / Interviews

Discipline and Magic: Q & A with Karen Craigo

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Evelyn Somers • Leave a comment

by Evelyn Somers

“I decided in 2015, on New Year’s Day, that I wanted to have a book, so I just declared it the Year of the Book. It was a powerful lesson that what you put out there energetically, you reap.” Continue reading →

Breaking Open the Box: A Conversation with Toi Derricotte
Author Features / Features / Interviews / Poetry

Breaking Open the Box: A Conversation with Toi Derricotte

Posted on February 20, 2020 by editor • Leave a comment

by Nancy Koerbel

“There are just all kinds of ways to diminish yourself, but your writing is a way to think of yourself as an expansive self. ” Continue reading →

Remembering, Revering, Revealing Pauline Kael: Q & A with Rob Garver
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Remembering, Revering, Revealing Pauline Kael: Q & A with Rob Garver

Posted on December 25, 2019 by editor • Leave a comment

by Sonya Chung

“Even if you felt she was wrong about a movie, she was always enlightening—or funny, or maybe rude, or all three at once.  And she believed that at his best, a critic could be an artist too.” Continue reading →

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