This is a post that is currently on the American Literary Review site: The place where stories come from? I think that it must be the...

This week's Ploughshares post, 2.28.11: Deborah Eisenberg.  Martin Amis.  Steve Almond.  Alice Munro.  Penelope Fitzgerald.  Jim...

I’m not sure how other fiction writers and poets feel about the choice they’ve made to ignore friends and family and the world at large...

My inaugural blog post! (from 2009....imported from my old site): A little over a year ago, I was invited to guest edit prose submissions...

If you had to give us an elevator speech about your new novel . . . Eek! I’ll try: The Blue Hour is set in a contemporary fictional...

If you had to give us an elevator speech about your new novel . . . Eek! I’ll try: The Blue Hour is set in a contemporary fictional...

1. Tell us a little about your new book. Don’t Bet on It is a portrait of my 28-year romance with my late wife, Joan Edwards. Our time...

About four years ago when I started writing the first draft of what became my third book, the novel Paris, He Said, I knew that it would...

The harsh truth is this: sometimes it’s time to give up. It can (and should, in many cases, I believe) take a while for writers to make...

Rated R for Racy: Writing Sex Scenes As a graduate student in the mid-90s when I faced my first class of undergraduate fiction-writing...

1. Tell us a little about Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give is a memoir structured as seven “toasts” about...

1. Tell us a little about your novel. Here’s the jacket copy: At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as...

One of my favorite writers in any genre, Scott Spencer, has a terrific new novel out, River Under the Road, the first of a planned...

Jon Hess has this to say about #1 Son and Other Stories , Michael Marcus’s debut story collection: “Michael Marcus takes us on a wild...

He’s best known for Endless Love, a novel that immerses its readers in an intense, visceral meditation on first love, one much richer and...

1. Tell us a little about your story collection. There are 12 short stories, all set on or around Christmas. The voice and settings for...

From the book jacket: "She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid...

1. Tell us a little about your new novel. Simple Machines is a novel of myth and ritual, telling a story of Wisconsin dating from the...

Tell us a little about your new book. And These Are the Good Times is a collection of essays and brief memoir pieces; riffs, I like to...

1. Tell us a little about Making Friends with Death: A Field Guide for Your Impending Last Breath. This book is simply a how-to/guide...