Irish writer Kevin Barry sits down for a chat about life in County Sligo, not knowing what your stories are about until years after you've written them, and the summer he spent in a camping trailer on a West Cork beach.
Maureen Seaton sits down to discuss queering poetry, collaborating on collections, vacillating between literary genres, and why Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic" is at the top of her credos.
The prolific Stephen Dixon sits down with The Rumpus to discuss the endings of short stories, beginning with good lines, and his evasive history with editors.
Writer Sarah McCarry chats about girl friendships, holding down multiple jobs at once, and setting her novel, a retelling of the Orpheus myth, against the backdrop of 1990s grunge-fueled Seattle.