APM: Thanks for taking the time to talk to Southern Literary Review, Jolina. Your latest novel, The Midwife, follows closely on the heels of The Outcast. Did you expect these books to be the successes they’ve been? All authors dream that their novels will be successful, and I was certainly no exception. Still, I had […]
“From Proper Nouns to Slant Sonnets: A Conversation with Poet Anya Silver About Place and Time”
July 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Sarah Hughes Interviews Anya Silver Sara Hughes: I am so excited to sit down with you and discuss your second collection of poems. For readers who are unfamiliar with your work, breast cancer is a major topic you write about, so we want to make sure we talk about it, but I’m also really interested […]
On Southern Gothic: Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Brian Centrone and Jordan Scoggins
May 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
ASW: Thank you so much, Brian and Jordan, for visiting with me today about your new anthology that you edited, Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South. Would you provide us with your definition of “Southern Gothic” and an overview of this wonderful anthology? B: This was something we actually talked in depth about over the […]
Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Karetta Hubbard and Molly Tinsley, Co-authors of the Novel “Satan’s Chamber”
April 23, 2014 by Leave a Comment
ASW: Karetta and Molly, congratulations on the success of your novel, Satan’s Chamber, which you wrote collaboratively. Your novel is set in Sudan and is a spy thriller as well as a novel of social justice. Why don’t we begin with your giving us an overview? KH & MT: Satan’s Chamber is action-packed, and casts […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews James Elkins About Law, Literature, Poetry, and Teaching
March 19, 2014 by 2 Comments
AM: Jim, thank you for doing this interview. You recently came out with a book, Lawyer Poets and That World We Call Law. You’ve been researching and writing about lawyer poets for some time now. What is it about lawyer poets that fascinates you, and what is it about this type of person that makes him […]