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Aditi Khorana, Author

June 7, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Louise Rozett

Aditi Khorana grew up in India, Denmark, and New England, and has worked as a journalist for ABC News, CNN, and PBS, and also as a marketing consultant for Fox, Paramount, and Sony. All of this life experience adds up to a unique, empowering, fierce body of work, including two novels, Mirror in the Sky and Library of Fates […]

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Aminah Mae Safi, Author

June 6, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Regan Humphrey
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Esmé Weijun Wang, Author

June 5, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez

There is something wonderful about being able to write both fiction and nonfiction…. It does take
different kinds of brain work, which is really enjoyable.[…]

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Liz Netto
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Sarah Manguso, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Liz Netto
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Isha Sesay, Journalist and Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez
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David Groff, Editor

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Buffy Visick
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Jaswinder Bolina, Poet and Essayist

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Barbara Fant
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R.O. Kwon, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Alexis McCadney
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Maggie Smith, Poet

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Ale Cruz
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Blas Falconer, Poet

November 30, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Regan Humphrey

An impressionist painting: From up close, in the throes, the canvas is a blur of colors overlapping, brushstrokes smooth and coarse, repetitive, messy, dizzying, dazzling, dark, and light. But from a distance, the wildness of the expression appears tame. You see the oil painting for what it is: An intricate composition from the paintbrush of a master […]

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Issac Bailey, Author

May 31, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Diane Gottlieb

I was first introduced to Issac Bailey at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest last June, where he spoke about his book My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South. My Brother Moochie is a powerful, personal exploration of race and racism and of the […]

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Naima Coster, Author

May 28, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Andrea Auten

Young writers are finding ways to speak out through character. Pulled from the news, fiction and fact condense into compelling personal accounts. But Naima Coster isn’t politicizing a message. Her work is far more reaching, more tender, and more carefully wrought. This Yale, Columbia, and Fordham graduate draws the straight line of success from classwork […]

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Christoper Castellani, Author

May 27, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez

Christopher Castellani, the son of Italian-American immigrants, is best known for his critically-acclaimed trilogy of novels about an Italian-American family: A Kiss from Maddalena (Algonquin Books, 2003), The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin, 2005), and All This Talk of Love (Algonquin, 2013). Filled with real and complex characters living in turbulent times, the Grasso family’s story reminded me of my […]

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Natashia Deón, Author

May 26, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by A.D. Lowman

Natashia Deón is the acclaimed author of Grace (Counterpoint Press, 2016), a Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016, a New York Times Top Book 2016, an Entropy Magazine Best Book of 2016, and winner of the American Library Association Black Caucus 2017 First Novel Prize, among other honors. Deón is a graduate of the University […]

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Isaac Fitzgerald, Editor, Essayist

May 24, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by April Brucker

Who is Isaac Fitzgerald? This inked essayist is the love child of Jack Kerouac and The Dropkick Murphys on paper. He is gritty and adventurous like his beatnik predecessor, but has the modern punk rock sensibility of the same band that hails from his home state of Massachusetts. Fitzgerald easily picks up where the beatniks […]

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Vandana Khanna, Poet

May 23, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Amanda Lopez

Vandana Khanna has published two full-length collections of poetry, Train to Agra and Afternoon Masala, as well as her most recent chapbook The Goddess Monologues. Among her achievements are notable features in the New England Review, The Missouri Review, 32 Poems, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, […]

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Ada Limón, Author, Poet

May 22, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Jordan Nakamura

Ada Limón is a poet and author of Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World (both debuted in 2006), Sharks in the Rivers (2010), and Bright Dead Things (2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her latest book, The Carrying, is the […]

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Rodolfo Montalvo, Author, Illustrator

May 21, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Adrien Sdao

Rodolfo Montalvo is a Los Angeles-based children’s book illustrator with work published in both traditional print and digital media. His illustrated books include The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School and The Amazing Wilmer Dooley (both written by Fowler Dewitt), and the picture book Dear Dragon by Josh Funk. Bye Land, Bye Sea will be […]

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Bich Minh Nguyen, Author

May 13, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Gabriella Souza

Throughout her work and life, Bich Minh Nguyen has explored identity. In her memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, she describes how as a child in Michigan, she craved Hamburger Helper and was perplexed when eating bánh chung, the special sticky rice cakes her Vietnamese family enjoyed at Tet, didn’t tantalize her taste buds. In her novels, characters […]

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Ben Loory, Author

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by Andrea Auten

Ben Loory is a good guy who writes great short stories. The end. If it were only that easy. Behind his smoothly carved stories, Loory revises and refines drafts sometimes for years before they’re finished. A few, he writes in one afternoon. His characters are compelling; nameless, often faceless, possibly mirrors of ourselves—even if ducks […]

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Jeff Shotts, Editor

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by Barbara Fant

On August 14th, I had the honor of interviewing Jeff Shotts, Executive Editor of Graywolf Press in Minneapolis, MN, by phone. A native of McPherson, Kansas, and graduate of Washington University’s MFA program, Shotts began his career as an editorial assistant before going on to edit poetry and nonfiction. After hearing his guest lecture during […]

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Khadijah Queen, Author, Poet

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by Jordan Nakamura

Khadijah Queen (to remix two very famous quotes by Walt Whitman and Lionel Blue) contains multitudes like everybody else, only more so. In one sense, the scope of her work is so radically diverse in form and genre that it’s difficult imagining all of it coming from one author. Queen describes a literary life that […]

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David Ulin, Author, Critic, Editor

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by Yvonne de la Cruz Sánchez

You’ve probably read David Ulin’s work in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Paris Review, Black Clock, Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Zyzzyva, Columbia Journalism Review, The Believer, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Ulin has also been a contributor to docufilms, such as Lost LA and the upcoming Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in […]

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Francesca Lia Block, Author

November 23, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by Adrien Kade Sdao

I still remember the moment I first swiped one of Francesca Lia Block’s books from my big brother’s bookshelf. Splayed out across my family’s living room floor in our downtown Los Angeles apartment, I devoured the modern fairy tales in Blood Roses with a hunger I hadn’t realized was there. Moving on to her other […]

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Alistair McCartney, Author

May 29, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2018 / Interviewed by Andrea Auten

Alistair McCartney is more apt to graciously smile and walk by, than stay and chat. Amiable and courteous, he’s an unassuming type who stays out of the spotlight. Author of The Disintegrations: A Novel (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017), he recently won the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. The Seattle Times and ENTROPY named it one of the best works […]

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Juan Felipe Herrera, Author

May 29, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2018 / Interviewed by Jennifer Mahoney

Juan Felipe Herrera is the author of several poetry collections, short stories, young adult literature, and children’s books. Among many of his works are the recent Notes on the Assemblage, Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, and The Upside Down Boy. He became the US poet laureate in 2015 for two […]

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Siel Ju, Author

May 29, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2018 / Interviewed by Kori Kessler

I found LA based writer Siel Ju’s novel Cake Time: a novel-in-stories during a trip to LA in December 2017, and I was hooked. I easily fell into the rhythm of the book’s structure and style, and Siel’s use of language: witty and sharp. The next logical step for me, of course, was to use […]

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Tony Lewis, Jr., Author

May 29, 2018/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2018 / Interviewed by Shaneka Jones Cook

Tony Lewis, Jr is a husband, father, son, author and activist. He works diligently, fighting for the rights of incarcerated men and women who have left family behind. But most importantly, he is fighting for the DCPS school system to offer aid to children who have an incarcerated parent. He also uses his voice to […]

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Cecil Castellucci, Author

November 24, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2018 / Interviewed by Jennifer Mahoney

Cecil Castellucci’s stories remind us that we find vulnerability and courage in the face of new situations and obstacles. Castellucci is a flexible writer, capable of expressing her stories through several artistic mediums. Her characters embody the passion, joy, and confusion of those delicate young adult years. Her world-building immerses the reader into the 1930s […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

March 10, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Point Break & Top Gun Are More Than Homoerotic Action Movies

March 3, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Michaela Emerson
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Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

On Such a Full Sea Are We Now

March 17, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Jemma Leigh Roe
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The Russian Train

February 24, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Cammy Thomas
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Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

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

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