Catherine Valdez: Thank you for agreeing to this interview, Doug. Your novel was such a fun and engaging read. So many lines lingered with me. In the very first chapter, for example, I was drawn to this line: “sometimes, ‘objects of power don’t reveal themselves to the mortal plane unless called forth with a summoning…
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Inseparable Connections: A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield on her new collection Ledger
By Justin Balog Jane Hirshfield’s latest collection, Ledger, released March 10th, 2020 from Knopf, is a record of our responsibility to the climate and social justice crises as inhabitants of a global community. The consequences then, of these global crises, are at the center of the speaker’s musings in Ledger, which span from considerations of…
Slow Apocalypse: A Conversation with Mary South
By Yohanca Delgado Mary South’s debut story collection, You Will Never Be Forgotten, came out in March, at the very beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns in the U.S. and around the world. When we talked this summer, it was clear, even then, that life as we knew it had changed forever. Looking back on our conversation now, in September,…