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A Map of Tulsa, by Benjamin Lytal
In Michael Chabon’s celebrated novel Wonder Boys, the protagonist, a novelist, asks his father-in-law how he likes his first book and gets this response: “‘It’s a young man’s book,’ he said, not...
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The Best Machine: An Interview with Elliott Holt
In the summer of 2009, I met Elliott Holt at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Our rooms were next door to each other and we were fast friends. In my experience, friendships made during the summer...
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Book of the Week: The Raven’s Gift, by Don Rearden
This week’s feature is Don Rearden’s debut novel The Raven’s Gift, which was recently published by Penguin. Rearden grew up on the tundra of Southwestern Alaska, where his experiences with the Yup’ik...
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Chop, Chop, by Simon Wroe
In Chop, Chop (The Penguin Press, 2014), a foodie’s nightmare and a biting parody of a restaurant kitchen commanded by a sadist, Simon Wroe exposes the underbelly of a kitchen beast. The secrets George...
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Sometimes Taking Things Out Counts as Writing: an Interview with Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng and I met almost exactly a decade ago in the University of Michigan’s Creative Writing MFA program (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program). We were in the same fiction workshop every semester,...
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Personal Histories: An Interview with E.B. Moore
When I first moved to Boston and began attending literary events, I noticed a striking woman who seemed to be at all of them. She was statuesque and ageless, with long white braids piled on top of her...
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Landscape and Longing: An Interview with Bich Minh Nguyen
Bich Minh Nguyen, award-winning author of the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Viking, 2007) and the novel Short Girls (Viking, 2009), once again explores the immigrant experience with her latest...
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“The Mommy Problem,” and the Larger Notion of Life Beyond Work
Editor’s Note: As we approach our tenth year of publishing Fiction Writers Review, we’ve decided to curate a series of “From the Archives” posts that we’ll re-publish each week or so during the year....
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It’s All Story: An Interview with Danielle Lazarin
Danielle Lazarin’s stories build like an uptown A train, first shaking the dirty puddles at your feet, then lifting your hair, then barreling into your guts like you never saw them coming. Her debut...
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To Finally Want What’s True: An Interview with Peter Kispert
Peter Kispert’s debut collection, I Know You Know Who I Am (Penguin), presents a kaleidoscope of deception. The subtle variation in the lies his queer characters tell and their motivations for telling...
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