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The Songstress Series: Alela Diane
This post brings the first of what I hope will be a regular feature on the [tk] review: interviews with some of the very talented female songwriters working today, discussing their music, their lives, and especially their ways with words. Last week I chatted with Alela Diane, a wonderful Portland-based folk musician whose albums include [...]
Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus has made a career of exploring the mythic materiality of language. In early novels such as The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women, he documents fantastic societies for whom language is an elemental power: at once a weapon, a weather pattern, and a chemical process. If characters wad their mouths [...]
Getting Serious With Siri
We met in a charmless conference room. There was a salad in front of her, but she hadn’t touched it. The good news was that she wasn’t sullenly checking her phone, the way so many starlets of the moment seem to do during big magazine interviews, because she WAS a phone. “Sorry, I’m having trouble [...]
The 5 Under 35 Interview Series: Shani Boianjiu
Our final 5 Under 35 honoree is Shani Boianjiu. Shani’s novel The People of Forever Are Not Afraid is forthcoming from Crown in 2013. Though Shani lives and writes in Israel, sections of the book have already created a buzz here in the US, and will soon be published in Zoetrope and Vice. Because Shani [...]
The 5 Under 35 Interview Series: Melinda Moustakis
Today the spotlight is on Melinda Moustakis, author of the linked short story collection Bear Down, Bear North. In graceful, lyrical prose, Moustakis delivers a brutal but gorgeous love song to the rough-and-tumble wilderness of Alaska. In the beautifully rendered world that Moustakis gives us, the beasts of the state—eagles, and bears, and hundred-pound fish—lurk [...]
The 5 Under 35 Interview Series: Danielle Evans
Today’s conversation is with Danielle Evans, author of Before Your Suffocate Own Fool Self, a dazzling debut story collection. Evans takes us all over America and into vastly different cultures and lives—from a nearly segregated high school in the South to the dorms of a prestigious Ivy League school in New York. In prose that [...]
The 5 Under 35 Interview Series: John Corey Whaley
Today’s 5 Under 35 honoree is John Corey Whaley, author of Where Things Come Back, the first YA novel to be selected for this award. The book’s sweeping scope tackles everything from the unrequited crushes that plague our youth, to the history of forgotten portions of the bible, to zombies. Cullen Witter is seventeen years [...]
The 5 Under 35 Interview Series: Mary Beth Keane
Every year the National Book Foundation recognizes five writers under the age of thirty-five with exceptional promise. These five honorees are chosen by past winners of the National Book Award. The books written by this year’s five young writers are as diverse in subject and scope as they are compelling, captivating, and thought-provoking. The honorees [...]
An Interview with David Whitehouse, author of Bed
David Whitehouse’s debut novel, Bed, is about a British family stuck in a small house with an ever-expanding obese son named Mal, who decided on his twenty-fifth birthday to stay in bed for the remainder of his life. Why Mal (who was always eccentric) stays in bed isn’t the focus here (put simply, Mal stayed in bed because [...]
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