“Madame Realism”: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman by Joel Sherman
Lynne Tillman, visiting Hurst Professor in Fiction at Washington University in St. Louis for Fall 2016, speaks with MFA candidate Joel Sherman about writing…
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“Changing, It Rests”: A Conversation with Garth Risk Hallberg by Michael J. Sanders
On Wednesday, September 28th I sat down with 2016 Assembly Series writer and former Washington University alum Garth Risk Hallberg…
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BEHIND THE FACE OF ANOTHER: A CONVERSATION WITH DAN BEACHY-QUICK by Cassie Donish
Dan Beachy-Quick on the ethical work of the poem, language as inherited crisis, the expression of silence, and refiguring desire.
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“Look in Thy Heart and Write”: A Conversation with Mark Slouka
Mark Slouka on genre and the role of the essay, the rise of the MFA, the 2016 American presidential election season, and on what it means to write the essential.
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The History Behind the Feeling: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine by Aaron Coleman
“How people feel, what they feel, what breaks them, how trauma resonates through their lives . . . that’s a legitimate space in poetry.”…
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A Conversation with Jeffrey Condran by Curtis Smith
Jeffrey Condran is the author of the story collection A Fingerprint Repeated. His debut novel, Prague Summer, was published by Counterpoint in August 2014 and…
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A Specter, a Spectacle: A Conversation with Danielle Dutton on Margaret the First By Christina Wood Martinez
When she drives through in her carriage, when she makes her daily tour, she sees their faces peering out from cottage doors. She is…
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