Talking with Andrew Szilvasy

Talking with Andrew Szilvasy

“Our brain is just there, interpreting, mulling, meddling.”

Talking with Kimberly Thornton

Talking with Kimberly Thornton

“The only evidence of a fight is the sucker-shaped scars on the whales.”

Talking with Lucía Orellana Damacela

Talking with Lucía Orellana Damacela

“I have purposefully not listened to that song again; the moment, as it is implied in the poem itself, was gone.”

Talking with Jessica Hincapie

Talking with Jessica Hincapie

“There’s such a fine line between fear and fascination.”

Talking with Cindy Juyoung Ok

Talking with Cindy Juyoung Ok

“There is indeed a real island, but my hope was to point to the way stories of power—and the aftermath of its performance—are old and familiar.”

One to Watch: Brandon Taylor

One to Watch: Brandon Taylor

“Some people are comfortable in a very nebulous space. They’re much more comfortable in the first person voice because it affords spreading across time. I’m not that kind of writer.”

Talking with Joel Coltharp

Talking with Joel Coltharp

“Strangely enough, I found not having the answers to those questions actually benefited the central narrative in the final version of the essay.”

Talking with Brittany Coppla

Talking with Brittany Coppla

“I wanted the architecture of this story to feel recursive, and I hope that ultimately the meditations in the museum are in conversation with the experiences that happened outside of the museum.”

Talking with E. Kristin Anderson

Talking with E. Kristin Anderson

“I love how infinite music is in this way—it will always wait for you.”

Carve Review: Suicide Club by Rachel Heng

Carve Review: Suicide Club by Rachel Heng

The book is a funhouse image of a real New York microcosm, and of a Soylent-swilling, Fitbit-metric-obsessed segment of modernity.

Fall Story Roundup

Fall Story Roundup

But it’s in autumn that reading becomes more than itself; a fetishized activity.

Talking with Raksha Vasudevan

Talking with Raksha Vasudevan

“I felt in Uganda as I do in most spaces: both alien and at home, at once rooted and floating in space.”

Talking with Rebecca Irene

Talking with Rebecca Irene

“Like the cattails, we are all a partial sum of our experiences and environment.”

Talking with Liam Powell

Talking with Liam Powell

“But this is all post-rationalization.”

Talking with Allison Adair

Talking with Allison Adair

“Endings are tricky because the poem needs to land, but it also needs to take flight.”

Talking with Audrey Olivero

Talking with Audrey Olivero

“I think I actually owe teen girls and queer people coming into themselves on the early internet way more than I owe a single literary figure for getting me through this inspirationally.”

Talking with Emma Cairns Watson

Talking with Emma Cairns Watson

“I do like to think artistic creation propels us generally upward—closer to where we need to be.”

One to Watch: Colette Sartor, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award

One to Watch: Colette Sartor, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award

An excerpt of our Fall 2019 interview with Colette Sartor.

Carve Review: Blindsided by Chelsea Catherine

Carve Review: Blindsided by Chelsea Catherine

To an outsider, Key West looks like postcard paradise: crystal-white beaches, palm trees, sunshine, pastel-painted bed and breakfasts, and a thriving LGBTQ community.

Talking with Alice Pettway

Talking with Alice Pettway

“The big emotions—love, grief, anger, fear—typically don’t happen in extraordinary settings but rather in people’s kitchens and living rooms.”