Interviews and Reviews
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An Interview with EB White: Writing The Counterfeit Countess
After EB White delivered an academic conference paper on Majdanek, a Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, an American history professor from the University of Florida approached her with a carbon copy of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlber’s unpublished memoir. Read more
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An Interview with Mary Ann McGuigan: Writing That Very Place
The inspiration for each story in That Very Place is different because the stories were written over the course of three or four years, starting in about 2019. Two of the stories are even older than that. The idea for… Read more
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In Bad Forecast, Poet & Essayist Steffan Triplett Grapples with Unfathomable Loss
In Bad Forecast, Poet & Essayist Steffan Triplett Grapples with Unfathomable Loss By Kate Lewis Life’s inexplicable cruelties thrum through Bad Forecast, Steffan Triplett’s moving cross-genre work of beauty amidst the tragedy of living. The work’s throughline is the aftermath… Read more
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Marianne Chan and Luisa Igloria in Conversation
Marianne Chan and Luisa Igloria in Conversation By: Isabel Hoin In this flagship audio interview, Isabel Hoin is joined by Marianne Chan and Luisa Igloria to talk about their respective new collections of poetry. In this conversation, Chan and Igloria… Read more
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Sincere Love and Scholarship: An Interview with Manuela Mourão
Sincere Love and Scholarship: An Interview with Manuela Mourão I caught up with Dr. Manuela Mourão during ODU’s 2024 Literary Festival, where the professor of English was celebrating her multimedia art exhibition at Old Dominion’s Baron and Ellin Gordon Art… Read more
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Capital-t-Truth: A Conversation With Geoff Bouvier
Capital-t-Truth: A Conversation with Geoff Bouvier Geoff Bouvier’s newest collection, Us From Nothing, is a historical, epic prose poem about the undeniable milestones of the universe that allowed for us, people, to be people. I met Geoff after his reading at ODU’s… Read more