Interviews

May, 2012

Small Press Spotlight: Rene S. Perez II

by Rigoberto Gonzalez | May-15-2012

Along These Highways, University of Arizona Press, 2012. Rene S. Perez II was born in Kingsville, Texas, and raised in Corpus Christi. He received a BA...read »

Small Press Spotlight: Douglas Ray

by Rigoberto Gonzalez | May-02-2012

Author Photo: Jane Rule Burdine He Will Laugh, Lethe Press, 2012. Douglas Ray, a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation poetry fellow, teaches at Indian...read »

December, 2011

Small Press Spotlight: Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability

by Rigoberto González | Dec-13-2011

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, Cinco Puntos Press, 2011. Edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen Bartlett’s preface...read »

June, 2010

James Lee Burke: “Louisiana Is Not the Past, It’s the Future”

by Jane Ciabattari | Jun-10-2010

James Lee Burke, whose Dave Robicheaux novels are set in New Iberia in southwest Louisiana and in New Orleans, has been on my mind while watching the latest...read »

February, 2009

Talking with PEN America Journal’s Editor M Mark

by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-20-2009

PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, is the publication of PEN American Center, winner of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Sandrof award...read »

NYPD’s Ray Kelly: “Don’t Even Think of Attacking New York City”

by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-03-2009

Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey, author of “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—The NYPD,” sat down with New York Police...read »

January, 2009

Remembering John Updike: James Marcus Talks with Updike about his “Bech” Novels

by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-27-2009

National Book Critics Circle board member James Marcus interviewed John Updike in 1998 about his “Bech” novels. In 1970 John Updike unleashed his Jewish...read »

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