The second interview in the "If You Lived Here" blog series is with Jennine Capó Crucet, author of the short fiction collection How to Leave Hialeah, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. How to Leave Hialeah is a beautiful and detailed map of the crowded beaches and neighborhoods of Miami as seen through the lives of the people who call them home. Her new novel, Magic City Relic, is forthcoming for St. Martin's Press in 2015. MM: I thought one of the important themes in the book was … [Read more...] about If You Lived Here: An Interview with Jennine Capó Crucet
Inside the Issue: Kevin Wilson reads from “The Horror We Made”
The new issue of American Short Fiction contains a wonderful story by Kevin Wilson about, as Bret Anthony Johnston puts it, "that moment in your teens when everything seems both possible and doomed." In a few casual, funny, accessible scenes, Wilson conjures this delicate moment in all its brimming, about-to-spill-over fullness, all its wonder and vividness and heart. Here, in a podcast produced by our assistant editor Andrew Bales, is Kevin Wilson reading a few pages of the "The Horror We … [Read more...] about Inside the Issue: Kevin Wilson reads from “The Horror We Made”
Inside the Issue: Anis Mojgani illustrates Joyce Carol Oates’ “The Disappearing”
In "The Disappearing," Joyce Carol Oates examines the way time can unravel both our relationships and our selves. The story chronicles the fading of a marriage from the wife's perspective, but we are left uncertain as to whether it is her husband or she herself who is gradually disappearing. We asked poet and artist Anis Mojgani to illustrate the story for us. Here, alongside some excerpts from "The Disappearing," is his beautiful and moving response. "Alone with her husband in … [Read more...] about Inside the Issue: Anis Mojgani illustrates Joyce Carol Oates’ “The Disappearing”