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Ready Writer One: An Interview With Gabe Durham Of Boss Fight Books
January 28th, 2015
I slept on Nintendo sheets. Lots of nights when I was young, when I was lucky and the one set of Nintendo sheets ended up on my bed instead of one of my brothers' beds, I would lay down, and Mario and Link would protect me from all those childhood monsters. The decision as to whether the pillow case would be Zelda-side-up or Mario-side-up was a serious one. Even though it was dark, even though I couldn't see them, even though I was a little too old to have sheets with characters on them, I loved those sheets.
Read Interview →The Story You Made of Me: An Interview Lidia Yuknavitch about Dismissed Narratives
November 21st, 2014
We all assign narratives to people. That is a thing humans do, so don't deny it. Some of us may do it more than others, and it takes a conscientious mind to really unpack them. Especially if you write fiction, or hell, even when you read. You guess about how characters would act when they aren't you or aren't based on you. Even if the characters are based you, I am sure there is a stereotype of you somewhere, a stereotype that you think about deep down, something you wish people didn't assume about you.
Read Interview →10 Questions with LitReactor Instructor and Memoirist Cooper Lee Bombardier
October 29th, 2014
2014 has been an incredible year for trans artists. Many have hailed Janet Mock's bestselling memoir about discovering her identity and Laverne Cox's cover story in Time to be momentous steps forward toward equality. There remains, however, much distance to travel. And here to teach a four-week workshop about digging into identity is Cooper Lee Bombardier.
Read Interview →10 Questions with Urban Waite
October 22nd, 2014
Image by Sean Hunter What if upon the publication of your first novel, you were compared to Cormac McCarthy? I know, a lot of novelists are compared to the grim Nobelist in waiting, but ask yourself, how would you react? Would you be ecstatic? Or would you feel like it was a burden? Or what if the most widely read and influential novelist of the 20th century praised your work, how would that make you feel?
Read Interview →10 Questions with LitReactor Instructor and Horror Writer Gemma Files
October 20th, 2014
It's Halloween season—the best time of the year to scare yourself silly. And horror writer Gemma Files is an expert at terrifying prose. She's gone to great lengths to add complexity and literary merit to a sometimes (unfairly) dismissed genre—and we were thrilled to catch up with her for a chat.
Read Interview →10 Questions with LitReactor Instructor and Erotica Writer Rachel Kramer Bussel
October 7th, 2014
For a lot of writers and readers, their knowledge of erotica begins and ends with stuff like cheap bodice-rippers and Fifty Shades of Grey. The thing is, erotica is a big, diverse genre. And it's a genre I've been wanting to cover in our workshops for a while now—so I was excited when I came across Rachel Kramer Bussel, a seasoned writer, editor, and teacher of erotica.
Read Interview →10 Questions with 'One Kick' Author Chelsea Cain
September 15th, 2014
Here's something that's a little funny, or maybe a little sad: I come from a crime fiction background and I've never read Chelsea Cain. I've read all her friends—Monica Drake and Chuck Palahniuk and Suzy Vitello and Lidia Yuknavitch—the members of that too-cool Portland literary clique we hear so much about. But Chelsea's work, which is supposed to be in my wheelhouse, eluded me.
Read Interview →10 Questions with Benjamin Whitmer
September 4th, 2014
Image via Music Tomes When I was reading Benjamin Whitmer’s debut novel, Pike, the first time, I made a comment on social media how I felt like I needed to take a scalding hot bath and scrub myself with bleach and steel wool to keep reading. I didn’t mean this statement to be an insult, far from it.
Read Interview →10 Questions with LitReactor Instructor Chloe Caldwell
August 27th, 2014
[Women] is a novella about falling in love with a woman, about loving women, about being a woman. It is a novella about a mother and a daughter. A novella about female friendships that blur the line of romance. A novella about a woman who, after having her first sexual relationship with a woman, goes on a series of (comical) OK Cupid dates with other women. A novella about a woman in her twenties who doesn’t know if she’s gay or straight or bi. A novella about falling in love and having your heart broken and figuring out what to do next.
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