RICK MOODY is the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and a collection of essays, On Celestial Music. Moody's band, The Wingdale Community Singers, will soon release their third album, Night, Sleep Death, on Blue Chopsticks Recordings. He has also released a solo album, The Darkness Is Good.
MARC WOODWORTH's writing about music includes two books, Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words and Bee Thousand (in Continuum’s 33 1/3 series). He’s also published a collection of poems, Arcade. He teaches in the English Department at Skidmore College and is an editor at Salmagundi Magazine.
Jeff Chang discusses his latest book, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, his work in hip-hip journalism, and the beauty and humanity of political protest.
I first met Maggie Shipstead in 2011 when she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She had not yet published her first novel, Seating Arrangements, which would later become…