Vlad Interviews: Genia and Daria Blum

/ Vlad Savich / Interviews
Like bad literature, a form of “fake ballet” exists, practiced by those inept in the use of this language

Vlad Interviews: Adrian Manning

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
When I hear the name Adrian, I recall a Soviet cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayev. Are you an astronaut too?

Vlad Interviews: Jake St. John

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
A cousin that died years ago visited me in my dream once and he told me that God looked like a giant green frog.

Videogames & Loneliness: Syfa’s Cloak

/ Joseph Spece / Video Games
Robin’s egg blue linen cotton dyestuff and the mordants + saltflakes from Trevor’s two fingers.

Interview: Claire Tacon

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
In writing characters that were further from my experience, I felt like I had to meet three requirements. One, I had to know what I was talking about.

Interview: Eric Blix

/ Justin Eells / Interviews
I have a very torn sentiment toward the particular political moment, and I guess I’ll just go out and say it: I’m very ambivalent about Trump when I’m writing.

Videogames & Loneliness: Teh Socials

/ Joe Linker / Video Games
Hamlet, at his computer. Enter Polonius: / Polonius: What friends thou hast, add them fast, Lord Hamlet.

Vlad Interviews: Jessica Sequeira

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Hamlet is a snippet of computer code that wants to escape from its programmed functions

Videogames & Loneliness: Mass Effect (and more)

/ Cassandra Jones / Video Games
I have many fond memories of playing video games, but the ones that nestle up against the forefront of my mind always involve other people.

Interview: Claudia F. Savage

/ Lisa Birman / Interviews
My compositional process is deeply connected with being outside. I almost always begin my writing practice by walking or hiking. Words flow from movement.

Videogames & Loneliness: Little Big Planet

/ Laura Eppinger / Video Games
After I survived a disastrous year abroad, dropped out of grad school and left a dysfunctional relationship, I was lucky to be able to move home to my parents’ basement.

Vlad Interviews Reb Livingston

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
When people ask, I tell them I’m a “cafeteria Pagan," but I aspire to be a Gnostic.

Videogames & Loneliness: Jo Ego II

Interview: Kathryn MacLeod

Videogames & Loneliness: Jo Ego I

/ Amanda Earl / Video Games
a guided remix / from video game descriptions, / fairy tales, how-to guides, and flights / of fancy...

Vlad Interviews João Cerqueira

In Bed With LustForLanguage

Interview: Kasia Jaronczyk

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
Immigrant stories are usually about the journey from one place to another and I didn’t want to write that. What interests me is what happens before and after the journey.

Interview: Jonathan Ball

/ Christopher Lawrence / Interviews
I don’t believe in developing a unique, individual style. I think that is death to a serious writer. Unfortunately, it’s also a good business decision.

Interview: Har Mar Superstar

Interview: Lauren B. Davis

/ Andrew I. Power / Interviews
Work can be impossible. Heck, leaving the house can be impossible! And one is forever having flashbacks of the initiating incident, nightmare

Interview: Diane Schoemperlen

/ Megan Arden Gallant / Interviews
It seems to me that in real life we don’t have much choice about changing as we grow older. Life changes us, for better or for worse.

In Bed With j/j Hastain