Telling the Stories We Want to Read
I was first introduced to Mary Miller and her work in a circuitous way. Upon joining the magazine and learning the ropes, I was asked to check out her story in issue #1 and see if I would like to do an...
View ArticleOf Food and Fame: Talking with James Hannaham (Part One)
Later you would call it an accident, when the guests found you in the kitchen bleeding into the duck confit. When that didn’t work, you blamed me, just to save your own skin. Yet we know the truth,...
View ArticleOf Food and Fame: Talking with James Hannaham (Part Two)
Last week in Part One of our interview with James Hannaham, we reflected on “High Five,” his work that was recently published in Story. He discussed his inspiration for the piece as well as his ideas...
View ArticleI Stumble Into Everything – An Interview with Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard’s was the first story I ever read in a literary magazine; it was “Climb Aboard the Mighty Flea,” in a 2002 issue of The Paris Review. I found it in college while wandering around in the...
View ArticleWriting is a Basic Moral Function: An inteview with Steve Almond
On his Othrppl podcast, Brad Listi calls Steve Almond, “a really good priest.” Although it’s hard to picture Almond’s lanky frame in a vestment, his long neck in a starched white clerical collar, there...
View ArticleMaking Others Feel Less Alone: An Interview With Kastalia Medrano
When I was a child, there was a monster under my bed. It was there when I was born, and when I was old enough to move from my mom’s bedroom to my own it moved in with me. I thought sometimes that...
View ArticleFiction Doesn’t Need a Platform: Talking with the Novelist Justina Ireland
On Thursday, September 17, 2015, I met novelist Justina Ireland at lunch with the Story staff and several York College of Pennsylvania students. She was visiting as part of the college’s cultural...
View ArticleChristopher DeWeese Interview Part I: To You Who Are Reading This Poem in the...
This is the first of a two-part interview with the poet Christopher DeWeese; part two will be published tomorrow. Something brilliant happens when a poet tangles with philosophy; he plunges into...
View ArticleChristopher DeWeese Interview Part II: It’s Beautiful and It’s Also Really Sad
This is the second installation of a two-part interview with poet Christopher DeWeese; read part one here. STORY: Can you talk about Alternative Music a bit more? How you are remixing the songs?...
View ArticleEvolution of a Warrior for Literary Diversity: An Interview with Alexandra...
Alexandra Watson is the executive editor of Apogee, a journal of literature and art that engages with identity politics and social justice. Published in July 2016, Issue 07 of Apogee holds poetry,...
View ArticleIf That Were Me, What Would I Want? – An Interview with Alice Dreger
A lot of your work in medical history examines people and conditions which are considered by the larger society to be “monstrous” or “freakish.” What do you think it means to “monsterize” these...
View ArticleI Am Completely Blurred: An Interview with Hasan Elahi
In 2012, Hasan Elahi displayed his work at York College of Pennsylvania (images from An Undisclosed Location are featured in the print edition of Story #3). What follows is his interview with gallery...
View ArticleA Conversation with Wayne White
Matthew Clay-Robison: You said to me recently that many of your artist friends wish they were musicians and many of the musicians you know wish they were artists. Whose career would you rather have:...
View ArticleOur Conversation with Bess Winter
Bess Winter is the author of “Machines of Another Era,” which appeared on our site in 2016. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, where she’s Editor-in-Chief of...
View ArticleOur Conversation with Carolyn Ferrell
Carolyn Ferrell is the author of the short-story collection Don’t Erase Me. Her work can be found in Best American Short Stories 2018 and 2020, and in The Best American Short Stories of the Century,...
View ArticleOur Conversation with Yohanca Delgado
Yohanca Delgado holds an MFA in Creative Writing from American University, where she teaches undergraduate writing. She is an assistant fiction editor at Barrelhouse, and has been published in The...
View ArticleOur Conversation with Blair Hurley
Blair Hurley received her A.B. from Princeton University and her M.F.A. from NYU. She is the author of The Devoted, published by W.W. Norton, which was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First...
View ArticleOur Conversation with Brian Leung
Brian Leung is the author of the novels Lost Men, Take Me Home, and Ivy vs Dogg: With a Cast of Thousands!. His short-story collection, World Famous Love Acts, won the Asian American Literary Award and...
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