Interview

'A Little Outside the Gates of Hollywood': An Interview with Bruce McDonald

Talking with the Hard Core Logo and Highway 61 director about his new film, Hellions, the joys of a hard-ass editor, the miseries of Can-con, and the inherent strangeness of childbirth.

'It's Powerful To See Someone Who Looks Like You On The Page': An Interview with Mia Alvar

Talking to the author of In The Country about expatriate communities, Filipino and otherwise, the protection fiction can offer, and the holes migration can leave in your experiences.

'A Surrender to All-Over, Non-Directional Horniness': An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum

Talking to the poet and critic about his new book of poetry, Pink Trance Notebooks, identifying with "wounded speakers," and the mind as a demonically possessed Siamese twin.

'Righteous Fury Helps Me Process': An Interview with Kate Harding

Talking about rape culture, the overblown fear of false accusations, and using humour to make the unthinkable thinkable with the author of Asking For It. 

'A Pep Talk for People in the Grip of Decay': An Interview with Dan Bejar

Talking with the Destroyer songwriter about his new album, Poison Season, how his writing evolved past "ranting in a notebook," and the uncertain state of aging indie-rockers.

'I Am Attracted To The Hope Of Finishing': An Interview With Jason Polan

The artist and author on trying to draw every single person he sees, the Taco Bell Drawing Club, and how many Ikea hot dogs he can eat.

'I Don’t Think The Truth Is Totally Unknowable': An Interview with Richard Beck

The author of We Believe the Children on the 1984 McMartin Preschool sexual abuse case, the history of moral panic, and why we prioritize certain types of abuse.

'Perhaps I'll Remain In Between': An Interview with Alan Hollinghurst

A career-spanning talk with the author of The Swimming-Pool Library and The Stranger's Child.

'Totalitarian Terror Isn't Operating On Your Schedule': An Interview with Jim Shepard

The Book of Aron author on the challenges of implicating Jews in a story about their suffering and the point of fictionalizing the Holocaust. 

Page Three: An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh

"I’m not comfortable with life on Earth. This life here feels really harsh and painful. It has felt like torture here a lot of the time."