The Gothic Horror of the Fourth Trimester: Talking with Julia Fine
Julia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
...moreJulia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
...moreI lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
...moreWe make a home, in other words, by letting in our ghosts.
...morePatricia Spears Jones discusses her body of work, the future of poetry, and more.
...more“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
...moreMaisy Card discusses her debut novel, THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY.
...moreA permanent job doesn’t need her, and neither do her boyfriends.
...moreThe animal spirit of poetry brings us closer to our own humanity.
...moreKatharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
...moreGhosts, like women as people, are just a theory.
...moreIf this were the end, May needed to see.
...more“I wanted the thing to feel as ordinary as bread.”
...moreI remember driving a bird mad once.
...moreLisa Lenzo discusses her new story collection, UNBLINKING.
...more“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
...moreI want a PhD in how to want, effortlessly, to be alive.
...moreSusan Blumberg-Kason, co-editor of HONG KONG NOIR, discusses the new anthology.
...moreRahna Reiko Rizzuto discusses her newest book, SHADOW CHILD.
...moreStanding alone before the house, I think: love can be a sad, strange thing.
...moreIn the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
...moreSometimes a story suddenly changes.
...moreRachel Lyon discusses her debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, artistic communities, the quotidian nature of the supernatural, and hyper-gentrification.
...moreGrace shook her head, surprised by both her reluctance to speak and her impulse to lie. She had seen many photos of Rebecca.
...moreWe seldom forget when people promise to give us something, whether we need or want that thing or not. I promise you death, you want a death.
...moreColin Winnette discusses his new novel, The Job of the Wasp, the nature of horror and his approach to writing it, and the fear at the heart of the book.
...moreMelissa Fraterrigo discusses her new novel-in-stories, Glory Days, writing speculative fiction, and how our formative years influence us later in life.
...moreI can’t unlock the unlockable. I can’t understand the whispers of the dead no matter how loud they scream in the scatter
...moreDeath stigmatizes a property. I also believe that it stigmatizes a person.
...moreCapturing the Delta in harrowing detail, Ward takes readers on a journey from her own home of the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
...moreA visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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