Linking Grief and Joy: An Interview with Marguerite Sheffer on “The Man in the Banana Trees”

An interview with Marguerite Sheffer about her new collection “The Man in the Banana Tree.”

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The Calculus of Desire and Faith: An Interview with Jessie van Eerden

Van Eerden discusses her latest essay collection, which concerns itself with self-discovery, with touch and human connection.

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In ‘Hello Down There,’ Addiction Is a Metaphor That Questions Language and Daily Life

An interview with author Michael Parker on the reprint of his first novel, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize in 1993.

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The World’s Ending Every Day: A Conversation With Evan Gray About “Thickets Swamped in Fence-Coated Briars”

An interview with Evan Gray about his first book, “Thickets Swamped in Fence-Coated Briars.”

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Appalachia, Gothic Horror, and Villains: A Conversation with Andrew K. Clark

An interview with author Andrew K. Clark on his debut novel, “Where Dark Things Grow.”

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The “Power of Poetry in Commemorating Personal and Historical Sorrows in Ways Historians Cannot”: Poet Weijia Pan on “Motherlands”

An interview with poet Weijia Pan about his collection “Motherlands,” which uses poetic inquiry to explore the tensions within family relationships in post-Maoist China.

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Fear, Safety, and “The Red Grove”: An Interview with Tessa Fontaine

An interview with Tessa Fontaine on her latest novel, “The Red Grove,” and the Punch Bucket Literary Festival in Asheville, NC.

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“Greater Ghost” Connects Death and the “Intimate Relationship One Has with the Body and the World”

An interview with poet Christian J. Collier on his full-length poetry collection, “Greater Ghost.”

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Dueling Pianos: Nicholas Molbert and William Fargason in Conversation

A conversation between poets Nicholas Tolbert, author of “Altars of Spine and Fraction,” and William Fargason, author of “Velvet.”

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