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Nine Books About Your Life: Juliet Cook
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Juliet Cook is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, most recently including red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, 2023), Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), and Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023).
Nine Books About Your Life: James Nulick
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with James Nulick, author of the forthcoming Plastic Soul.
Nine Books About Your Life: Catherine Rockwood
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment we’re speaking with Catherine Rockwood, author of And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death.
Nine Books About Your Life: Drew Pisarra
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. In this installment, we speak with Drew Pisarra, author of Periodic Boyfriends.
What If Every Cow Wants to Save Her Own Life: An Interview with Gretchen Primack
Gretchen Primack is an extraordinary poet not only because she has a mastery of the form and her language but also because she understands what it is to be human and to be kind.
On Novellas, Day Jobs, & Friendship Stories: Caelyn Cobb Interviews Abigail Stewart
Abigail Stewart put out a query on Twitter: who wants to join a chill vibes writing discord with me where we just sit around and write and drink tea? I thought, why not?
Nine Books About Your Life: Colin Dodds
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with Colin Dodds, author of Pharoni.
Nine Books About Your Life: Keely O’Shaughnessy
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with Keely O’Shaughnessy, author of Baby is a Thing Best Whispered from Alien Buddha Press.
Nine Books About Your Life: Alex Carrigan
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with Alex Carrigan, author of May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry (Alien Buddha Press, 2022).
Nine Books About Your Life: Paige Clark
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Paige Clark, author of She Is Haunted (Two Dollar Radio).
Nine Books About Your Life: Alexis V. Jackson
In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Alexis V. Jackson, author of My Sisters’ Country (Kore Press).
Nine Books About Your Life: Marream Krollos
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Marream Krollos, author of the forthcoming Stan (Meekling Press).
Nine Books About Your Life: Amanda Marbais
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the first installment of 2021, we speak with Amanda Marbais, author of Claiming a Body (Moon City Press).
Nine Books About Your Life: Morgan Christie
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Morgan Christie, author of the forthcoming These Bodies (Tolsun Books).
Nine Books About Your Life: July Westhale
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. In this installment, we speak with July Westhale, author of the forthcoming Via Negativa (Kore Press).
Nine Books About Your Life: Jay Besemer
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the third installment, we speak with Jay Besemer, author of the forthcoming Theories of Performance (The Lettered Streets Press).
Nine Books About Your Life: Sara Wainscott
In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Sara Wainscott is the author of Insecurity System, winner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (Persea, 2020), and a chapbook, Queen of the Moon.
Nine Books About Your Life: Olivia Cronk
In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the inaugural installment, we speak with Olivia Cronk, author of the forthcoming Womonster.
An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita
By Karen An-hwei Lee
An avid fan of Karen Tei Yamashita’s fiction—Brazil-Maru, Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, and I Hotel—I was thrilled to pick up Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, the long-awaited anthology of electrifying performance worksedited by Stephen Hong Sohn in collaboration with Yamashita herself. Readers of Yamashita’s award-winning novels will be delighted to see her irreverent cultural motifs come alive through playscripts and archival photographs of the past three decades.