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Christine Sneed
Mar 15, 20235 min read
Guest Post: Cris Mazza Discusses It's No Puzzle with Hannah Green
From Spuyten Duyvil, the publisher: In these linked essays, Cris Mazza probes questions of heritage, legacy, and identity. The result of...
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Christine Sneed
Apr 20, 20224 min read
Interview with Debut Novelist Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
From the publisher’s description of The Orchard: Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a...
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Christine Sneed
May 14, 20205 min read
Q and A with Ann Tinkham About Her New Collection: Stories I Can't Show My Mother
1. Did this collection come together gradually, after you'd written a few stories that you...couldn't show your mother? Or did you think...
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Christine Sneed
Dec 13, 20196 min read
Q and A with Hadley Moore about her debut story collection Not Dead Yet
1. Tell us a little about the stories in Not Dead Yet: They are shot through with (my) existential dread! But many of them are also funny...
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Christine Sneed
Oct 12, 20194 min read
Q and A with R.L. Maizes about her story collection We Love Anderson Cooper
1. Tell us a little about your book: To quote the book jacket: "In We Love Anderson Cooper, characters are treated as outsiders because...
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Christine Sneed
Oct 2, 20193 min read
Q and A with Don Tassone about his new story collection, SAMPLER
Note: I asked Don to create this Q and A (i.e. a self-interview which literary sites such as The Nervous Breakdown have featured from...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 29, 20186 min read
Q and A with Jon Chopan, author of the story collection Veterans Crisis Hotline
1. Tell us a little about your story collection. The twelve stories of Veterans Crisis Hotline offer a meditation on the relationship...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20186 min read
Q and A with Laura Pritchett, RED LIGHTNING
Please tell us a little about your new novel. Red Lightning is the story of Tess Cross, a coyote who has been running immigrants across...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Casey Gray, DISCOUNT
Discount, Casey Gray’s debut novel, is set in the American Southwest, forty miles north of Juárez. This ambitious, tragicomic, and...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Maggie Mitchell, PRETTY IS
Tell us a little about your novel: Pretty Is is the story of two girls who are abducted together the summer they are twelve. Carly May...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20184 min read
Q and A with Suzanne Clores, MEMOIRS OF A SPIRITUAL OUTSIDER
Tell us a little about Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider. It's a book about my personal quest as a twenty-something to bring spiritual...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20184 min read
Q and A with Ken Kalfus, COUP DE FOUDRE
1. The title story is a riveting feat of imagination. What initially drew you to the story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20184 min read
Q and A with Shari Goldhagen, IN SOME OTHER WORLD, MAYBE
Tell us a little about your new novel. In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20184 min read
Q and A with Tony Ardizzone, author of THE WHALE CHASER
The Whale Chaser is now in paperback from the Chicago Review Press. Tell us a little about The Whale Chaser. The Whale Chaser is about...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20183 min read
Q and A with Jessica Treadway, LACY EYE
Tell us a little about your new novel. It's a book about (and narrated by) a woman torn between the competing values of wishing to know...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20186 min read
Q and A with Anne-Marie Oomen, LOVE, SEX, AND 4-H
An overview of Love, Sex, and 4-H from Wayne State University Press, Made in Michigan Writers Series: "As the 1960s dawned in small-town...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Louise Aronson, A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS
1. Tell us a little about your book. With A History of the Present Illness I wanted to take readers into the real lives of real and often...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20186 min read
Q and A with Monica McFawn, BRIGHT SHARDS OF SOMEPLACE ELSE
From the jacket copy: In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Chrissy Kolaya, CHARMED PARTICLES
1. Tell us a little about your new novel. Short: It’s about high-energy particle physics, gentlemen explorers, gifted and talented...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20188 min read
Q and A with Michael Burke, WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT MEN
Some of your stories, e.g. “The Jonquils,” “Eddie Doyle Says Life’s Been Good,” and “Keepers,” are written in sections – with...
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