Interviews

November 20th, 2009
The Oxford American Interviews Drag the Darkness Down Author Matt Baker

You must read Matt’s interview.
You must buy Matt’s book.
And while you’re at it, read his interview with the Writer Profile Project. (But excuse the weird formatting. Apparently the website upgrade screwed some stuff up. I’ll try to get to that soon…)
And definitely read his stories in FRiGG!!!! “Knuckleball” is here, and “Landing on the [...]



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December 16th, 2008
An Interview with Tania Hershman, author of The White Road and Other Stories

Tania Hershman was born in London in 1970. In 1994, she moved to Jerusalem, Israel, where she now lives with her partner. Tania is a former science journalist, and her award-winning short stories combine her two loves: fiction and science. Many of Tania’s stories, which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in [...]



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October 27th, 2008
Magic Helicopter Press Takes Flight

Magic Helicopter Press was started by Mike Young, the editor of NOÖ Journal, in late 2007. The press will publish paper chapbooks, e-books, and experimental multimedia projects. The first two titles will appear in mid-November—Mary Miller’s Less Shiny, and Benjamin Buchholz’s Thirteen Stories. For more information, visit Magic Helicopter’s website.
Below is an interview [...]



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October 13th, 2008
An Interview with Bruce Holland Rogers, by Stefanie Freele

Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers have appeared in three of the W.W. Norton anthologies of brief fiction (Flash Fiction, Sudden Fiction Continued, Flash Fiction Forward) and have won a Pushcart Prize and the World Fantasy Award. Some of his stories have been translated into 23 languages, and his most recent collection, The Keyhole Opera, won [...]



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October 3rd, 2008
An Interview with In The Land Of The Free author Geoffrey Forsyth

Geoffrey Forsyth’s In The Land Of The Free won the second annual Rose Metal Press chapbook contest judged by Robert Shapard. Stories from his chapbook appeared in, among other places, Other Voices, New Orleans Review, and Rhino. Many of the stories were also nominated for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Mystery Stories series, and [...]



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May 7th, 2008
An Interview with Amy Knox Brown

Amy Knox Brown is the author of Three Versions of the Truth, a collection of short stories published by Press 53 in 2007. It’s a remarkable collection with a great concept–it combines contemporary short stories with flashes of fictionalized history. While all of the stories in Three Versions take place in or near Lincoln, [...]



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November 15th, 2007
Indie Chick: An Interview with Elizabeth Ellen

Read an interview with Elizabeth Ellen at 3:AM Magazine. Elizabeth is the author of Before You She Was a Pit Bull, a chapbook published by Future Tense Books in December of 2006, and 16 Miles Outside of Phoenix, a chapbook of short-shorts forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in early 2008.



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November 6th, 2007
Kathy Fish interview at Quick Fiction

I had the pleasure of interviewing the wonderfully gifted flash writer Kathy Fish about her collection Laughter, Applause, Laughter, Music, Applause, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in January. This manuscript was a finalist in the first annual Rose Metal Press short-short chapbook competition judged by Ron Carlson. The interview appears online at Quick Fiction. Read [...]



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September 5th, 2007
An Interview with R.N. Morris

I had the extreme pleasure of interviewing R.N. Morris, the author of The Gentle Axe last month. The interview is now live in the September issue of Bookslut. Read it here.



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