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Lunch Specials

Issue 29: Summer/Fall 2026

Tenderness and Terror—the Making of GRIME: An Interview with Thea Matthews

May 19, 2026/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2026 / Interviewed by Mahru Elahi

It’s Never One Thing: On Translation and Subversion; a Conversation with Dr. Sorcha de Brún

November 30, 2025/in Interviews, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2026 / Interviewed by paparouna

Becoming: A Multimodal Exploration of Identity & Family with Cathy Linh Che

May 24, 2025/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2025 / Interviewed by Dr. Valerie Nyberg

Morgan Parker on Poetry, Prose, and the Power of Curiosity

November 8, 2024/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2025 / Interviewed by Paula Williamson

Nothing is Wasted: Poet Ellen Bass on Craft

May 17, 2024/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2024 / Interviewed by Scott LaMascus

Betting On Your Authentic Self: A Conversation with Cleyvis Natera

November 22, 2023/in Interviews, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2024 / Interviewed by Paula Williamson

Modern Issues in Historical Fiction: An Interview with Vanessa Hua

May 30, 2023/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2023 / Interviewed by EJ Saunders

Manifesting Social Change: An Interview with Kavita Das

December 4, 2022/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2023 / Interviewed by Rochelle Newman-Carrasco

Nothing Is One Thing: An Interview with Diane Seuss

June 2, 2022/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2022 / Interviewed by Kirby Chen Mages

Translation, an Echo of Love: An Interview with Robin Davidson

December 4, 2021/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2021 / Interviewed by Kelly Riggle Hower

On Novels and Screenplays, Character Tropes, and Black Horror: An Interview with Tananarive Due

June 9, 2021/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Barbara Platts

Translation, an Echo of Love: An Interview with Robin Davidson

December 4, 2021/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2021 / Interviewed by Kelly Riggle Hower

Immigrants, Survivors, and Translingual Poetry: An Interview with Piotr Florczyk

December 6, 2020/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special / Interviewed by Amanda Woodard

Angela Morales, Author and Essayist

June 7, 2020/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Regan Humphrey

Chris Feliciano Arnold, Author

December 2, 2019/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Buffy Visick

Carmen Maria Machado, Author

June 8, 2019/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Kate Carmody

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Author of The Fact of a Body

November 19, 2018/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by E.P. Floyd

Percival Everett, Author

May 29, 2018/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2018 / Interviewed by Jesus Francisco Sierra

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Author of The Fact of a Body

November 19, 2018/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by E.P. Floyd

Victoria Chang, Author of Barbie Chang

November 23, 2017/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Theresa Rogers

Margo Jefferson, Author of Negroland

May 18, 2017/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Angela Bullock

Maggie Nelson, Author of The Red Parts

November 15, 2016/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Diana Odasso

Daniel José Older, Author of Shadowshaper

May 14, 2016/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Alex Simand

Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of The Small Backs of Children

November 16, 2015/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2016 / Interviewed by Kirsten Larson

Roxane Gay, Author of An Untamed State

May 27, 2015/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2015 / book review and author interview by Melissa Greenwood

Antonia Crane, Author of Spent

December 3, 2014/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2015 / Book review and author interview by Rachael Warecki

Kiese Laymon, Author of Long Division

June 5, 2014/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2014 / Book reviewed by Allie Marini Batts; author interviewed by Jamie Moore and Daniel José Older

Catherine M. Wilson, Author of the Trilogy When Women Were Warriors

November 23, 2013/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2014 / Trilogy reviewed by Marissa Cohen; author interviewed by Lise Quintana

Alan Heathcock, Author

May 20, 2013/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2013 / Interviewed by Lee Stoops

Being A Girl is Hard

November 28, 2025/in Blog / Shawn Elliott

Diagnosis: Persisted or Silent Inheritance

November 7, 2025/in Blog / Paula Williamson

The Queer Ultimatum Made Me Give My Own Ultimatum

September 26, 2025/in Blog / Lex Garcia

The Lilac and The Housefly: A Tale of Tortured Romanticism

October 24, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Nikki Mae Howard

Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard

The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna

Till Death

May 15, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche, Translation / Lorea Canales, translated by Lia Galván

Making Friends

May 8, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche, Flash Prose / Robert L. Penick

Two Poems

May 1, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Jessie Raymundo

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk

A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail

Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran

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