by Carla Stockton “I was so focused. You know. I gave up a lot, like my teen years, but I got exactly what I wanted because I went after it.”
Interview with Artist Gerrit Joost de Jonge
A conversation with Gerrit Joost de Jonge and a collective conversation with writers, essayists, and artists making the case for transnational collaboration, including: Dinah Berland, Emily Bilman, Peter Frank, John Fuller, Joy Harjo, Juliën Holtrigter, Onno Kosters, Robert C. Morgan,…
Interview with Author Joshua Cohen
“Gods want to make matter. Magicians, or alchemists, want to change matter. And the scientists want to classify, or categorize, matter. As a writer you should want to be, or you should want to try to be, all three. You…
Interview with Poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
“I think our idea of what poetry is should be continuously evolving. As humans, we always want an answer that fits easily into a quotable sound-byte, but the truth is that the answers are complex and ever-changing.”
Interview with an Interviewer
by Carla Stockton Editor, critic, novelist, and Oscarologist, Thelma Adams sees her gender as an advantage. “As a female journalist,” she explains, “I let the women I interview be as intelligent as they actually are. There’s no need to hide…
Interview with Translator Robert Chandler
If a joke is to survive the journey into another language, if it is to hit the mark even when its cultural context can no longer be taken for granted, its point may need to be adjusted or somehow re-sharpened.
Interview with Artist Shawn Kuruneru
To me drawing is about origins. When you have an idea in your head you extract it by writing, sketching and scribbling it out. The first mark making gesture comes from uncertainty and chance which is what I find most…
Interview with Author Ellis Avery
I believe in towering ambition when it’s you alone with your work, but out in the world, I don’t think being a good artist is more important than being a good person.
Interview: Author Daniel Menaker
by Ella Delaney If you want to be a journalist or probably even a writer in general, a reporter in the broadest sense of the word, you already have that curiosity which comes from wondering what your parents are up…
Interview with Author Jon Michaud
Good early readers—that is readers who are honest, insightful, and unafraid to tell the truth—can save a writer months of work.