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By Accident and On Purpose: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith

  • Monet Patrice Thomas
  • March 26, 2018
Leesa Cross-Smith discusses her debut novel, Whiskey & Ribbons, what it takes to return to a story after a long time away, and how her faith influences her writing.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • June 2, 2017
This week, Oxford American has a stand-alone excerpt from Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, her first novel since 2011’s National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones. The excerpt, titled “Flayed,” follows…
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Making the Fantasy a Reality

  • Theodora Messalas
  • July 15, 2016
It’s particularly pleasurable to read interview between writers who know each other well. Over at Oxford American, long-time friends Ada Limón and Manuel Gonzales discuss Gonzales’s new novel, The Regional…
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Fiction Fitness

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 12, 2016
In Palmetto Landing, the men’s bodies existed in inverse proportion to those of their wives. Ahead of the publication of her much anticipated collection Difficult Women, out in January 2017, you can…
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Calling the Canon

  • Kirstin Allio
  • April 14, 2016
Don’t miss Kaveh Akbar’s review of Olio, by Tyehimba Jess (Wave Books), for Oxford American: The characters cast in Olio’s poly-vocal swirl count no fewer than a dozen, and almost all…
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Ponce de León, You Are Not the Forefather

  • Theodora Messalas
  • March 11, 2016
Aside from a few shared scribbles of genetic code, it is difficult to say exactly what keeps us tethered to our distant ancestors. Over at Oxford American, Alex Mar thinks…
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Fiction Can’t Be Any Worse Than Real Life

  • P.E. Garcia
  • December 18, 2015
The Oxford American talks to John McManus about his new short story collection, Fox Tooth Heart, and how he feels about his fiction being called “depraved”: I don’t know what…
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The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack

  • Molly Antopol
  • March 23, 2015
Skip Horack talks about his new novel, The Other Joseph, blending research with fiction, and living with the “curse of the fiction writer.”
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Roots and Ragtime

  • Bryan Washington
  • March 9, 2015
John Jeremiah Sullivan and Joel Finsel chronicle the rise, fall, and in-between wanderings of Houstonian booksellers, civil rights activists, reporters, and musicians—in oversized, Texan fashion. Most people have heard of…
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Merit Badges and Adolescent Angst

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 16, 2014
Over at the Oxford American, Rosecrans Baldwin treats us to a piece on America’s Boy Scouts. Also, adolescent angst: Any cool kids in my town whose parents enrolled them in Cub…
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Hands In Bleach

  • Sarah Edwards
  • June 12, 2014
A classic Annie Dilliard-ism; “The way you spend your days/is the way you spend your life.” In the latest Oxford American, Southern poet Rebecca Gayle Howard—guest editor of the OA summer issue—talks…
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“How do we access what we cannot know?”

  • Sarah Edwards
  • May 20, 2014
A book of poetry wrangling with your complicated Southern genealogy: this, by definition, is a complicated endeavor. The Forage House, Tess Taylor’s debut book of poetry, finds the author doing just that.…
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