Tag: interview

Emerging from my cave

After a quiet first quarter, I emerge from my cave with a small flurry of publications. Here they are, in glorious bullet point:

At Words Without Borders, I reviewed two books by Thai author Duanwad Pimwana, her first to be translated into English (by Mui Poopoksakul).
For Fiction Writers Review, I interviewed Caleb Michael Sarvis about his debut story collection, Dead Aquarium (we published his story, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” at Atlas and Alice).
I wrote an essay/dispatch/confessional about PEZ conventions and collecting for Barrelhouse.
This one is weird, but I had a Tweet story collected in the latest volume of the Mythic Picnic Tweet Story Project.

Hopefully this is the beginning of a busy second half of 2019.

Tags Barrelhouse, Caleb Michael Sarvis, Duanwad Pimwana, essay, Fiction Writers Review, interview, micro-fiction, Mythic Picnic, PEZ, Words Without Borders

Book Review Fiction Interview

Oh yeah, there’s a blog on this site: fall update

Post author By benjwoodard
Post date November 3, 2018
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I regularly neglect the blog portion of my website. As such, here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve published since my last post (back in May):

Stories:

“Creatures of Love” at Last Exit

“Old Friends” at Last Exit

“Everyone Needs a Kind Stranger to Listen to His Secrets” at Last Exit

“Parental Concerns” at Bending Genres

“Half Tank” at Atticus Review

“Living Our Best Lives” at jmww

Book Reviews:

“Review of The Concrete by Daniel Abbott” (Rain Taxi Review of Books, Issue 91, Sept. 2018)

“Hollywood Babylon: A Review of Ross McMeekin’s The Hummingbirds“ (Vol. 1 Brooklyn, June 2018)

Other Stuff:

“Living as Lion and Hunter: An Interview with Donald Quist” (Fiction Writers Review, Oct. 2018)

Take a look around. Maybe you’ll find something you like. Even if you hate it all, I appreciate you giving these links a few clicks.

Until the next time I remember to post on the blog, be well.

Tags Bending Genres, book review, Fiction Writers Review, flash fiction, interview, jmww, Last Exit, Rain Taxi, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Interview Random

Brief Update

I talked with Benjamin Johncock about his excellent debut novel, The Last Pilot, for Publishers Weekly. I highly recommend Ben’s book. It’s a great read.

Over at Barrelhouse, I took part in a panel piece on the FX comedy Louie. We got really into dissecting the narrative elements of the show, and we all admitted we’d go for the hot pour. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: 6/6/15 Here’s the second half of the Louie panel discussion.

Tags Barrelhouse, Benjamin Johncock, FX, interview, Louie, Publishers Weekly, The Last Pilot

Interview

Interviewing Ondjaki

I talked with Angolan author Ondjaki for this month’s issue of Numéro Cinq. You may remember that I reviewed Ondjaki’s novel, Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret, this past summer, and we got to communicating shortly thereafter. We chatted via email for several months to construct the piece, with messages exchanged every week or two. The wonders of technology! Read everything we had to say here.

Tags biblioasis, Granma Nineteen, interview, Ondjaki