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Dealing in Radical Truths: An Interview with Steve Almond
Steve Almond. CR: Sharona Jacobs On more than one occasion, I’ve heard Steve Almond refer to himself as “a cult writer.” This puts me in mind of some enduring “cult” brands, like Apple and the Mazda...
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Emotional Punches: An Interview with Scott Hutchins
Credit: Michael Shindler/Photobooth In Scott Hutchins’s debut novel, A Working Theory of Love (Penguin), recently divorced 36-year-old Neill Bassett muddles through bachelor life and a job at a Bay...
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Books Could Save Your Life: An Interview with Adam Rex
Before Adam Rex stays at your house, prepare for the sinking feeling of creative inadequacy. Because in the morning while you’re dozing in bed, possibly fighting off a hangover, you’ll find that Adam...
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The Salvage Detective: Roberto Bolaño’s Guide to Saving the Novel In Your Drawer
So you’ve got a dreadful first novel stashed somewhere in the proverbial drawer. You can’t bear to foist it on one more friend, but you can’t bear to burn it, either, or delete that outdated .doc file,...
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[QUOTES & NOTES] Next Project Up: NaDoWriYoNoMo
“The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.” —British musician and artist Brian Eno Now that National Novel Writing Month is over you...
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On Not Knowing the Half of It: Under the Influence of Christopher Hitchens
In the fall of 1983, I stood in the lobby of the Grande Bretagne, the oldest hotel in Athens, looking for someone I had never met. There he was, a pale, blond man, wearing a corduroy jacket and...
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Zombies Are Not Real: An Interview with William Gillespie
William Gillespie In 1990, William Gillespie was a student in one of my introductory fiction writing workshops at the University of Illinois. In beginning classes I sometimes find it difficult to...
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Your Gut is a Liar: An Interview with J. Robert Lennon
J. Robert Lennon / Photo Credit Lindsay France The feeling creeps up on you sometimes, maybe on an unwelcome birthday or when the radiator clinks on in the middle of a sleepless winter night: This is...
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Unclassifiable: Part One of an Interview with Tom Bissell
I met Tom Bissell in 2007 when we both lived in Rome. I had read his story collection God Lives in St. Petersburg and liked it, and as we became friends I couldn’t understand why this guy would want to...
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A Different Kind of Confidence: Part Two of an Interview with Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell I met Tom Bissell in 2007 when we both lived in Rome. I had read his story collection God Lives in St. Petersburg and liked it, and as we became friends I couldn’t understand why this guy...
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Happy Short Story Month!
Happy Short Story Month 2013! Once again, we’ll be celebrating short stories all month here at Fiction Writers Review: Reviews of fantastic story collections, such as Jamie Quatro’s debut I Want to...
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A Story Sung: Why Fiction Writers Should Read Poetry
Any writer who desires to get at the truth of human experience should read poetry, because it contains a multitude of possibility. Poetry is the mud that grows the seed that becomes the forest. It is...
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The Unsaid Meaning of Writing: Don’t Write
On a recent trip out of New York, headed home to Seattle, where my wife and I share a house and also where much of my writing is done, I found myself on the jet-way leading from the terminal to the...
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The Kind of Sentences I Would Want to Read: Part I of an Interview with...
I have never met Jonathan Callahan. I don’t know what he looks like, or where he lives, and whether or not he likes his parents, or even if he has parents. I can’t exactly remember, in fact, how I...
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“Plot is a Blueprint of Human Behavior”: An Interview with Natalie Bakopoulos
Though in some ways I got to know Natalie Bakopoulos through the experience of reading her debut novel, The Green Shore, it was on the shore of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast earlier this summer that we...
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Language is the Way: An Interview with Cristina García
“I’ll tell you the secret to all of it,” Cristina García said during the first session of her one-month stay at UNC-Wilmington’s MFA program last winter. For the dozen or so eager MFA students enrolled...
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I Am the House
1. Tell Me How I Love You According to Achak’s father in What is The What, by Dave Eggers, man chose cattle over The What when God offered a choice between the two. But not all of us are satisfied...
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That’s Funny
Three summers ago, I went straight from a ten-day teaching gig at Warren Wilson in North Carolina to Boston, where my father was dying. At least I thought he was dying. In the ten years of his long and...
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2013 State of the Book Presenter: Ellen Airgood
Editor’s Note: For the next two weeks we’ll be posting micro-portraits and/or interesting news about this year’s 2013 presenters at The State of the Book Literary Symposium, which will take place in...
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Finding the Authenticating Narrator: Part I of a Conversation with Russell Banks
Russell Banks / photo credit Larry D. Moore Back in the fall of 2012 I had the opportunity to host Russell Banks as Visiting Writer for Warren Wilson College’s Harwood-Cole Lecture Series. Knowing he’d...
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