TW Interview by David Cameron
Reading Busy Monsters is like crashing a party where Cervantes, Hopkins, Wordsworth, and Homer all compete at drinking games.
Featured Interview
William Giraldi: “I Let Myself Be Outrageous”
May 14, 2012
Susie Bright: “There Is No Art Without Sex”
Mar 22, 2012
TW Interview by Lorraine Berry
I hope my obituary is written by someone who actually read my work.
Julia Scheeres: “It Was a Hellhole”
Feb 13, 2012
TW Interview by William Gray
I’m 27. I can’t put down A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres, because I'm amazed that Jonestown even happened....
Robert Olen Butler: "The Danger of Wanting to Be a Writer”
Feb 06, 2012
TW Interview by Lorraine Berry
When people get frustrated because they don’t know what the book is about, it’s because they’re trying to turn it into a college term paper.
Mei-Ling Hopgood: "American Parents Go a Little Nutty"
Dec 26, 2011
TW Interview by William Gray
I had that mommy guilt about what I was doing.
Adam Pertman: “We Teach Our Kids by Being Open”
Nov 16, 2011
TW Interview by Fran Cronin
I like to think honesty and openness always trump shame.
Raymond Sokolov: The Joy of Edible Muskrat
Nov 07, 2011
Theme Essay by Jeremiah Horrigan
What is the state of American food—not just food writing—these days?
Steve Almond: “So Much Sensual Data to Be Mined"
Nov 07, 2011
TW Interview by David Cameron
In any honest story, you try to build an emotional ramp to the moments that matter.
Natalie Goldberg: “I Don’t Believe in Writer’s Block”
Sep 12, 2011
TW Interview by Judith A. Ross
I knew I couldn’t learn how to do writing in school, because people didn’t know how to teach it.
William Robinson: “The Quick Whip of a Sentence”
Aug 22, 2011
TW Interview by Rebecca Meacham
I didn't intentionally start out by saying "I'm going to write about a character who is ‘immoderately adrift.’
