Interviews
by Matt Lee
... I never liked The Hardy Boys, fucking dorks ...
by Ashley Wagner
... Once seven days have passed, you have a ceremony, have the close family come over, mourn, and remember the lost person ...
Lindsay Lerman and David Leo Rice Interview
by Lindsay Lerman & David Leo Rice
... After I finished my last book, I wanted to never speak or write again ...
by Sean Sam
... I think the development would not have been possible without the years between the short story and the first draft of the novel ...
by Matt Lee
... To the extent it’s possible, I subordinate myself to the creative act ...
by James Hancock
... failing to live up to the traditional ideal of what a man is can actually be a beautiful victory towards love ...
by Matt Lee
... The psychotic internal monologue is just a compendium of private thoughts on display ...
by Liv Albright
... things that are sad and things that are funny, and often they can really go together ...
by Sean Sam
... they envisioned the book like an illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages ...
by Matt Lee
... I’m not making a practiced, rational argument or a plea. It’s more like screaming into the void ...
Alexandrine Ogundimu Interview
by Mike Kleine
... The deepest stuff is the best and that’s the place it hurts the most to draw from ...
by Matt Lee
... In this novel as in your life, you pay attention to what each sentence says ...
by Sean Sam
... Blood represents two things in America: death and salvation ...
by Matt Lee
... I approach the world with the conviction that all places are haunted ...
by Grant Maierhofer
... The image or story I might begin with in my head is always transformed by the act of writing ...
by Ashley Wagner
... I hope always to do more listening than telling ...
by Anita Roastingear
... there is a hunger for books by Native writers about our history ...
by Matt Lee
... I want people to understand the complexity of what sex addiction feels like and also how confusing sex is to a survivor of sexual abuse ...
by Sean Sam
... Writing, for me, is one way to keep questions I can't answer ever-present ...
by Ashley Wagner
... Through our private utterances, poems ripple into the public, collective consciousness ...
by Matt Lee
... I view both the occult and the technological as these unknowable constructs ...
by Sean Sam
... one text grinding against another, one text caressing another, one text fisting another ...
by Matt Lee
... When there is too much to say I synthesize it into something cryptic ...
by Grant Maierhofer
... I do indeed feel the role of the critic has changed, and not for the better ...
by Grant Maierhofer
... I hate the tendency in a lot of biographies to reduce the work to the life...
by Matt Lee
... this stuff serious writers are trying to do will always have some purpose or matter in the grand scheme of things...
by Sean Sam
... I see us growing exponentially over the next few years. We've put out six books, and so far we have five more planned for 2021 ...
by Ashley Wagner
... I always start with memory. The past often feels more alive to me than the present ...
by Matt Lee
... I think the reason horror gets relegated to the gutter is because the genre is foremost centered around exploring base, primordial responses. Which isn't to say horror isn't often cerebral ...
by Sean Sam
... If we keep it private, we're stigmatizing it more, and then we go on believing that certain people aren't capable of committing these acts ...
by Matt Lee
... The abuse that so many people suffer through is terribly under-discussed in today's world. It is beginning to change in some positive ways, I hope, but there is a long way to go with the general perception of that ...
by Matt Lee
... Collaborations are good training for instinct and humility, and I can relate to those of a different style because what unites us is the same thing that propelled humanity into and through its many conundrums ...
by Sean Sam
... Poetry can be a way through because poetry asks for intense scrutiny. I feel like poetry is the key to unlocking a depth to English that our society erases ...
by Matt Lee
... We are like 99% the same, if we weren’t, nothing would work, we are like pine needles, leaves of grass, drops of water in the ocean, corn in a field. It is the 1% that we blow up in our minds, out of proportion to what is real ...
by Sean Sam
... I wanted to be overt about the peculiarities of WASP culture, instead of treating it as the default unmarked category, to treat it the way an ethnographer would. Growing up I always resisted this idea of excessive ancestor worship ...
by Sean Sam
... I want to take the witness stand as the most logical, terse, unemotional, unpolitical (that doesn’t exist and is a posture) self when I recite the basics of the abuse. None of these voices are authentic or are grounded in reality of human need, yet men have decided they are the gold standard of behavior ...