Interviews

10 Questions With Brian Panowich

July 7th, 2015

Image via Columbia County News-Times I hate comparing novels to other forms of media. You know, movies, television, plays. Whatever. But sometimes when you read a novel, you can’t help but be reminded of that beloved “other” media. With Brian Panowich’s extraordinary debut novel, Bull Mountain, I’m going to pull the Justified card out of my hat.

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10 Questions with David James Keaton

June 30th, 2015

There are a couple of things you know you're going to get when you read David James Keaton. You know you're in for some damn fine writing. You know there's going to be some good laughs. You know that, in the case of The Last Projector, you're going to suffer a minor lower back injury the first time you pick it up (remember: lift with the knees). And you know things are going to get weird, in the best way possible. 

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A Conversation with Joshua Mohr About His New Novel, 'All This Life'

June 29th, 2015

Hashtags are like emotions that people can see.  All This Life, Joshua Mohr's fifth novel, is both a love letter to San Francisco, and a dark and hysterical dissection of social media culture. The book opens with a marching band leaping off the Golden Gate Bridge, and follows an ensemble cast of characters who were directly or indirectly involved with the event—and their slow march toward each other. 

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10 Questions With Rob Hart

June 10th, 2015

The LitReactor team loves Rob Hart. Seriously, without Rob, a solid portion of the site’s content would be in absolute chaos, so obviously we value the guy around here. Also, as you all know, on top of his LR duties and his full time gig with Mysterious Press, Rob’s also one hell of an accomplished crime writer, whose debut novel, New Yorked, hit the streets yesterday from Polis Books. The first book in the Ash McKenna series is one of the few P.I. novels I actually enjoyed reading in a very long time.

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10 Questions with Paul Tremblay

June 2nd, 2015

Let’s talk about horror for a minute. As a genre, I absolutely love it. I started writing because when I was 11 I started reading folks like Stephen King, Clive Barker, Joe Lansdale, and David J. Schow and I got it into my head that maybe if I wrote my own scary stories, people would pay me to write them. Obviously, I thought that was a pretty cool way to make a living. I also love horror movies like teenage girls love texting. Since I was 9, flicks like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Exorcist have been my jam.

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Tips for the Aspiring Rare Bookseller: An Interview with Kenneth Welch of Serpentine Books

May 27th, 2015

Photos via Kenneth Welch I met Ken Welch a few years ago, and he’s become the guy I call for my John Greenleaf Whittier fix, or if I’m in want of a collection of Victorian fairytales. The next time you’re out on an errand run and forget to pick up a 17th century volume of the history of England, Serpentine Books should have you covered.

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10 Questions with Richard Thomas

May 26th, 2015

If you’re a regular visitor to LitReactor, Richard Thomas needs no introduction, because you’ve either taken one of his classes, or you regularly read his hugely popular Storyville columns.

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10 Questions With Lynn Kostoff

April 15th, 2015

Photo by Austin Kemmerlin There are certain writers whose work comes with such rarity, that it’s almost cause for celebration whenever they publish a new book. For literary fiction, it’s folks like Thomas Pynchon, James Salter, and Marilynne Robinson. With horror/weird fiction it’s Robert McCammon and Thomas Ligotti. With crime fiction it’s James Sallis, Daniel Woodrell, and Lynn Kostoff.

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Rob Hart vs. Bryon Quertermous: The Grudge Match Interview

April 8th, 2015

If you read my Path to Publication column, you know my journey to bookshelves has been fraught with peril. Exhibit A, an imprint of Angry Robot, signed me to a two-book deal last year. Then, after six months of stringing me along, Exhibit A shut down. My contract was among several that were canceled. It was a dark time. The story has a happy ending. Jason Pinter at Polis Books picked up New Yorked, and it's coming out in June, with a sequel to follow.

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10 Questions With 'The Mercy of Night' Author David Corbett

April 8th, 2015

A new novel from David Corbett is a cause for celebration, so I hope you all have your party hats ready. I was first introduced to David when I started working for MysteriousPress.com, which was putting out his backlist as eBooks. I generally try to pick up at least one book for each of our authors so I can familiarize myself with them. So I read The Devil's Redhead, his first, and was blown away. 

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