Megan Abbott convenes a virtual roundtable with writers Kelly Braffet and Lisa Lutz to tackle whether we're in a post-genre literary world, and discuss, among other things, bank heists, bitch-slapping, and French rats.
Carlos Batts, an award-winning photographer/director, and April Flores, a model/actress plus-sized adult film star, chat with us about their collaborative book, Fat Girl.
Nathaniel Kressen, writer and co-founder of Second Skin Books, discusses his experience creating a book from start to finish, the importance of editing, and the difference between self-publishing and independent publishing.
We talk to filmmaker Brian Lindstrom about his latest project, Alien Boy, the creative process behind documentary filmmaking, and his personal and artistic relationship with his wife, Cheryl Strayed.
Ashley Cardiff, author of the recently-published Night Terrors: Sex, Dating, Puberty and Other Alarming Things, talks to us about the challenges of the sexy memoir, privacy, style, and poses the question of whether or not Axl Rose counts as a recluse.
John Dufresne writes his characters so well, renders them in such a vivid, three-dimensional way, because of [his] genuine affection for people. He is fascinated by human beings—who we are, what we do, and why...
Julia Pistell, Rider Strong, and Tod Goldberg—writers and the hosts of the podcast Literary Disco—talk with us about the show's origin story, book criticism in the age of social media, and their upcoming live podcast.
Perhaps because he’s so entrenched in it, Frank Bill is a master of conveying life in rural, blue-collar Middle America without pandering to or stereotyping his subjects.
When Justin was twenty, his mother was murdered by her fifth husband in their trailer, off the grid from Tombstone, Arizona. He spent the next decade trying not to be defined by his mother’s death, before deciding to face his grief head on for his new memoir, Son of a Gun.
Joseph Olshan, whose novel Clara's Heart was reissued last month for its 20th anniversary, discusses impossible relationships, the power of the erotic in fiction, and making your way down the dark and foggy highway of novel writing.
Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers is full of energy. It is about people carving out their own worldviews into the established façade of the world. The artists in New York and…