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peter galindo

Talking with Pete Galindo

joy lanzendorfer

Talking with Joy Lanzendorfer

desert notebooks, ben ehrenreich

Talking with Ben Ehrenreich

unforgetting, roberto lovato

Talking with Roberto Lovato

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desert oracle volume 1, ken layne

Talking with Ken Layne

steph cha, your house will pay

Talking with Steph Cha

Steve Erickson’s fiction explores “chaos as it impacts—and is impacted by—identity, memory, obsession.”

Talking with Steve Erickson

Charlie Jane Anders’s The City in the Middle of the Night was a 2020 Hugo Award finalist for Best Novel.

Talking with Charlie Jane Anders

Sara Borjas’s poems ask, “How do I decenter whiteness in my desires and begin to decolonize my life, starting with my love?”

Talking with Sara Borjas

Alex Espinoza examines his experiences with anonymous sexual acts within a broad historical and cultural context.

Talking with Alex Espinoza

David L. Ulin says that “science fiction grows out of its moment, and out of the writer’s engaged response to those times.”

Talking with David L. Ulin

Novelist Katie M. Flynn says she’s become “deeply skeptical of the tremendous influence tech companies have on our lives.”

Talking with Katie M. Flynn

Tod Goldberg, author of Gangster Nation, is also a podcaster and a professor. He draws inspiration from “bingeing TV and reading poetry, [which] do the same thing to my brain,” he says.

Talking with Tod Goldberg

The central characters of Rishi Reddi’s Passage West are people who leave “what is near and familiar and travel—either psychologically, geographically, or socioeconomically—far from where they started.”

Talking with Rishi Reddi

Edan Lepucki says that her work asks a central question: “How can we truly know another person?”

Talking with Edan Lepucki

Poet Matthew Zapruder sees in his works “the constant question of the role of the poetic imagination in a time of crisis.”

Talking with Matthew Zapruder

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