Girl Fear: An Interview with Mary Stewart Atwell
Southern books beckon me. When a copy of Mary Stewart Atwell’s debut novel Wild Girls (Simon & Schuster) arrived in late summer, I had every intention of assigning it to one of our fantastic...
View ArticleFiction Writers Review Guilty Pleasure Reads Confessionals
Airports. Vacation spots. Subway commutes. Sunday. For whatever reason, even into the most well-read literary life a little twaddle reading does fall. At the risk of surrendering any and all...
View ArticleStories We Love: “A Voice in the Night,” by Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauser © Beowulf Sheehan About nine months after I heard Steven Millhauser’s incendiary reading at The Story Prize, his story “A Voice in the Night” arrived in the December 10, 2012 New...
View ArticleWhat Fiction Provides: An Interview with Aravind Adiga
Editor’s Note: As we approach our tenth year of publishing Fiction Writers Review, we’ve decided to curate a series of “From the Archives” posts that we’ll re-publish each week or so during 2017. Some...
View ArticleIt’s All Story: An Interview with Danielle Lazarin
Danielle Lazarin’s stories build like an uptown A train, first shaking the dirty puddles at your feet, then lifting your hair, then barreling into your guts like you never saw them coming. Her debut...
View ArticleComplex Truth: A Conversation with Ashley Wurzbacher
Contingency animates the ten stories in Ashley Wurzbacher’s debut collection, Happy Like This (Iowa). The women and girls at the heart of the collection scrutinize the world and consider how it might...
View ArticleTo Finally Want What’s True: An Interview with Peter Kispert
Peter Kispert’s debut collection, I Know You Know Who I Am (Penguin), presents a kaleidoscope of deception. The subtle variation in the lies his queer characters tell and their motivations for telling...
View ArticleThreats, by Amelia Gray
Editor’s Note: For the first several months of 2022, we’ll be celebrating some of our favorite work from the last fourteen years in a series of “From the Archives” posts. In today’s feature, Lee Thomas...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Sherlock Holmes: The Pleasure and Nuisance of an Enduring...
Editor’s Note: For the first several months of 2022, we’ll be celebrating some of our favorite work from the last fourteen years in a series of “From the Archives” posts. In today’s feature, Lee Thomas...
View ArticleStories We Love: “The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kálmán Once...
Each of us has our own secret symbols, a private reliquary where memory and meaning reign. A battered cast iron skillet. An heirloom quilt. The scent of wet red clay that evokes a childhood in the...
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