From Spuyten Duyvil, the publisher: In these linked essays, Cris Mazza probes questions of heritage, legacy, and identity. The result of...

From the publisher’s description of The Orchard: Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a...

1. Did this collection come together gradually, after you'd written a few stories that you...couldn't show your mother?  Or did you think...

1. Tell us a little about the stories in Not Dead Yet: They are shot through with (my) existential dread! But many of them are also funny...

1. Tell us a little about your book: To quote the book jacket: "In We Love Anderson Cooper, characters are treated as outsiders because...

Note: I asked Don to create this Q and A (i.e. a self-interview which literary sites such as The Nervous Breakdown have featured from...

1. Tell us a little about your story collection. The twelve stories of Veterans Crisis Hotline offer a meditation on the relationship...

Please tell us a little about your new novel. Red Lightning is the story of Tess Cross, a coyote who has been running immigrants across...

Discount, Casey Gray’s debut novel, is set in the American Southwest, forty miles north of Juárez.  This ambitious, tragicomic, and...

Tell us a little about your novel: Pretty Is is the story of two girls who are abducted together the summer they are twelve. Carly May...

Tell us a little about Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider. It's a book about my personal quest as a twenty-something to bring spiritual...

1. The title story is a riveting feat of imagination.  What initially drew you to the story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged...

Tell us a little about your new novel. In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the...

The Whale Chaser is now in paperback from the Chicago Review Press. Tell us a little about The Whale Chaser. The Whale Chaser is about...

Tell us a little about your new novel. It's a book about (and narrated by) a woman torn between the competing values of wishing to know...

An overview of Love, Sex, and 4-H from Wayne State University Press, Made in Michigan Writers Series: "As the 1960s dawned in small-town...

1. Tell us a little about your book. With A History of the Present Illness I wanted to take readers into the real lives of real and often...

From the jacket copy: In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the...

1.  Tell us a little about your new novel. Short: It’s about high-energy particle physics, gentlemen explorers, gifted and talented...

Some of your stories, e.g. “The Jonquils,” “Eddie Doyle Says Life’s Been Good,” and “Keepers,” are written in sections – with...