Interview • Occupy Wall Street
On October 15th The Coffin Factory visited Liberty Square in Manhattan. In the shadow of a halfway built Freedom Tower, we asked Occupy Wall Street two questions: Click here to watch the interview....
View ArticleInterview • The People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street
As the Occupy Wall Street movement passes its three month anniversary, the People’s Library, formerly located in Zuccotti Park, has served not only in providing Occupiers with fundamental and...
View ArticleInterview • Adam Zagajewski on Poetry
If you love poetry and know how to read, you have read or will read Adam Zagajewski’s latest book, Unseen Hand. There is rarely anything obscure in this collection, but its final effect remains...
View ArticleInterview • Harvey Levenstein on the American Food Industry
Harvey Levenstein is professor emeritus of history at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ohio. He has published a number of books on American history, including Revolution at the Table: The...
View ArticleInterview • Amber Sparks on May We Shed These Human Bodies
Interview by Joseph Riippi The first Amber Sparks story I read, or recall reading, was in NY Tyrant a couple years ago. “These are Broken, Funny Days” ends after about half a dozen paragraphs, before...
View ArticleInterview • Scott McClanahan on Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place
My freshman year at college in Virginia I was part of a Christian youth group. During a mid-term break we took a couple of large minivans out to a West Virginia campground in coal country. The trees...
View ArticleInterview • Sjón
The Icelandic author Sjón was in New York City last week to promote the release of his three books being translated into English: The Whispering Muse, The Blue Fox, and From the Mouth of the Whale....
View ArticleInterview • Matt Bell
Matt Bell is master of the tease. It was maybe three years ago that I first heard about his debut novel In The House Upon The Dirt Between The Lake And The Woods. To say Bell has stoked an eager...
View ArticleInterview • Mitchell S. Jackson
It’s no accident that acronymizing The Residue Years works out to TRY. In a debut novel full of heart and sentences that bleed, Mitchell S. Jackson gives us the love story of Grace and Champ, mother...
View ArticleInterview • Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including The Dew Breaker, The Farming of Bones, Brother, I’m Dying and Breath, Eyes, Memory. She is the recipient of the American Book Award, the...
View ArticleInterview • Aimee Bender
Writing with a distinctly imaginative and liberating voice, Aimee Bender is the author of two novels, An Invisible Sign of My Own and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, and three short story...
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