An Interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin on THE RUMPUS
Maurice Carlos Ruffin: We’re such a storied city, but there haven’t been many people who’ve published short stories about it on a national level, so subconsciously, I was thinking about representing the city and the different ways it manifests itself. In Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Toni Morrison’s Sula the community is a character. In Middlesex, it’s Detroit and in Morrison’s work, […]
An Interview with Nigerian Writer Sefi Atta
Did you always know you were going to be a writer and what has your experience been like all these years later? When I was a girl, I daydreamed a lot and I sometimes imagined plays and brought them to life with my siblings. I continued to do so with my classmates as a student […]
Kimbilio Fellow Arriel Vinson Interviews Kimbilio Fellow Leah Johnson about her second novel RISE TO THE SUN
“Rise to the Sun” Torches the Illusion of Perfection by Arriel Vinson For more than a year, we were unable to safely spend time near others. Some of us forgot what it was like to hug one another or see our families and friends, and unfortunately, that’s still a reality for many of us. But Leah […]
John Edgar Wideman Interviewed on Texas Public Radio
John Edgar Wideman’s YOU MADE ME LOVE YOUR: SELECTED STORIES 1981-2018 was published earlier this month. Here’s a preview of the interview: Asked about returning to reading his stories from the last 40 years… What’s been most striking to me and most, I guess, invigorating to me is when someone picks out a story, usually […]
Dantiel W. Moniz Interviewed on the First Draft Podcast
After I got to my MFA in Wisconsin, I didn’t write the whole first semester because I was just struggling so hard with imposter syndrome that I was like, “Oh, god, they’re going find out that I don’t belong here and they’re going to send me back.” But at some point, I had this idea […]
An Interview with the Editors of LOA’s Octavia Butler KINDRED, FLEDGLING, COLLECTED STORIES
Library of America announces the release of Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories—the first volume in the projected complete works of a writer whose impact and influence on the genre can rightly be called transformative. Follow the link below for an interview with the volume’s editors, Nisi Shawl and Gerry Canavan. https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1824-the-worlds-of-octavia-e-butler-theres-real-danger-in-these-stories?fbclid=IwAR1qVgUfeW9ngzNo2eTxH02GZRWJNMMCNXsQWstveulK3EjUuQfDrIdlnm8
