Preview SER 26.2
"It’s one of the great joys of the fantastic in any medium, that there be a level of absurdity."
Check out this excerpt from an interview with Clive Barker and get a taste of our new print issue, 26.2. To read the rest, subscribe now!
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09.02.08 [ podcast ]
Robert Olen Butler reads from his most recent short story collection, Intercourse, and his forthcoming novel, Hell. Author of ten novels and five short story collections, including the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Butler’s work has garnered two National Magazine Awards and appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic Monthly and numerous other publications. [ listen ]
07.28.08 [ podcast ]
Adventurer Bucky McMahon reads his account of traveling to the Peruvian jungles to ingest the mother of all hallucinogens, ayahuasca, and Don Yaeger, bestselling author and longtime associate editor of Sports Illustrated, reads from his forthcoming novel, Running for My Life, about the life of NFL running back Warrick Dunn. [ listen ]
06.24.08 [ podcast ]
Stephen Dobyns reads a selection of poems, with topics ranging from talking dogs to erotica. [ listen ]
05.30.08 [ podcast ]
Jeanne Leiby reads from her collection, Downriver, and Rick Campbell reads from his collection of poems, Dixmont. [ listen ]
05.17.08 [ podcast ]
Jeanne Leiby, editor of the Southern Review, offers her insight on the submission process. [ listen ]
03.28.08 [ podcast ]
Salman Rushdie talks about craft, language, and hanging out with Bono. [ listen ]
02.27.08 [ podcast ]
Mark Jarman reads from his latest collection of poems. [ listen ]
02.14.08 [ podcast ]
Hal Crowther gives us his insights into Key West and Lee Smith reflects on writing and its relationship to real life. (30mb) [ listen ]
01.25.08 [ podcast ]
Julianna Baggott delivers a scintillating reading ranging from raucous Bode-isms to dark meditations. [ listen ]
01.20.08 [ podcast ]
Listen to Joshilyn Jackson's letter to Penthouse and Karen Abbott's excerpt from her book about madams, prostitutes and mob bosses.
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08.28.2008
Behind the Scenes: Building the Sanibel Writers Conference
“I don't use the word ‘quaint’ very often, but every time I drive down Big Arts’ street, when I see the ‘Caution—Gopher Tortoise Crossing’ road sign, I think ‘How quaint.’”
Read this interview with Tom DeMarchi, who built a writers conference from the ground up—on some of the most beautiful ground in the world. [ read ]
08.21.2008
Interview with Matthea Harvey
“This is where I tell you that I’m two people, Mat and Thea and we’re always at war, or that I’m actually an alien.”
Discover how Matthea Harvey creates centaurs and catgoats in a fairytale manner and her love of robots. Also, read about how she coped with 9/11 and her reaction to the fact that there are microscopic particles of barbeque floating over Houston, Texas. [ read ]
08.06.2008
Interview with April Ossmann
“My ego likes feeling different/special, but my spiritual self sees the apprehension of oneness or unity as the ideal, all as integral, but not interchangeable, parts of a whole.”
Discover April Ossmann’s view of her own writing and what kind of “music” she believes her poems play in this lovely interview containing new insight on her content and style. [ read ]
07.28.2008
Interview with C. Mikal Oness
“I emptied a large room and played several games of poetry solitaire with the poems, experimenting with arrangement.”
Learn about C. Mikal Oness’s obsession with Old English and how he survived at boating accident only to suffer a great loss afterward. Also: his taste for Clun Forest Sheep (yes, he eats them) and camping in rural Minnesota. [ read ]
07.14.2008
Interview with John Dufresne
“A fiction writer has no reason to lie. A memoirist has an illusion to protect.”
John Dufresne opens up about writing, inspiration, and his brand new novel, Requiem, Mass. [ read ]
07.05.2008
Quickie Quick Take with Steve Watkins
“All genres are challenging. Just different sorts of challenges, all of which I both fear and enjoy.”
Read how Steve Watkins balances life between writing and his family, what writer he envies most, and his favorite curse word. You’ll laugh out loud. [ read ]
06.24.2008
Antidote to Distraction: An Interview with Ross Gay
“Having the illusion of race a bit more concretely deconstructed on one’s body seems like a privilege. (But, to be clear, race is contested and deconstructed on everyone’s body: black, white, Asian, biracial or whatever.)”
Ross Gay discusses optimism and violence, syntax and sound, Milton and basketball, and the pleasures and purpose of poetry. [ read ]
06.14.2008
Something for the Pain
“I knew I’d feel lame trying to explain that the screaming woman who looked so much like my daughter had made me feel vulnerable and clumsy.”
Paul Austin's essay is an open look into his life as an ER doctor. Read to find out how one particular case hit him close to home. [ read ]
06.06.2008
Interview with Lisa Solod Warren
“Women like to write for women . . . They loved the idea of getting to write about their own personal desires.”
Lisa Solod Warren, writer of fiction and essays and lover of shoes, discloses how her anthology Desire came to be. Read this interview to find out how an idea becomes a book, from finding a publisher to getting writers on board. Also, what kind of child she was and what she had for lunch today. [ read ]
05.30.2008
Interview with Karen Abbott
“Dead people don’t always say what you want them to.”
Karen Abbott talks about how she burrowed through history to write her book Sin in the Second City. Read about the Abbott family lore that inspired her to write the book and learn about “slotty” thinking and why you should avoid it. [ read ]
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