George Salis: What was the impetus for your new novel Le Overgivers au Club de la Résurrection?
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Category: Interview
STEAM Not STEM: An Interview with Mad Scientist Journal
About Mad Scientist Journal: Though initially established in 1818, time travel has allowed Mad Scientist Journal to become the preeminent scientific journal for atypical scientific theories and journeys throughout all of space and time. Or maybe that’s not actually true. Perhaps it is more accurate to describe it as a mad-scientist-themed zine established in 2011 whose last issue will come out in the beginning of 2020.
George Salis: What is the origin story of Mad Scientist Journal?
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Between Awake and Dead Asleep: An Interview with Kaleigh Dandeneau
George Salis: Your poetry collection, Something Akin To, recently came out through Dink Press. Why did you choose to leave your individual poems in the collection untitled?
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Imaginary Beings: An Interview with Patricia Eakins
George Salis: Your first story collection, The Hungry Girls and Other Stories (Cadmus Editions, 1989), is scheduled to be republished by Tough Poets Press later this year. The Kickstarter has already surpassed its funding goal. What can you tell me about this collection and how does it feel to bring it out into the world again?
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Driving a Bug: An Interview with David Vardeman
George Salis: Your upcoming book, An Angel of Sodom, contains a short novel and seven short stories. What was the thought-process behind curating this collection? How do the stories complement each other?
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Infinite Wallace: An Interview with the Co-Founder of The Great Concavity
George Salis: How did you first discover the work of David Foster Wallace and which of his works did you first read? Please paint a picture of the beginning of this love affair.
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Breaking Open the Head: An Interview with David David Katzman
George Salis: Your novel, A Greater Monster, seems to focus more on language and imagery than plot. Was this a conscious choice?
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Darklight: An Interview with James Diaz
Nicole Melchionda: Anti-Heroin Chic is an inclusive journal that aims to explore the gritty depths of the human experience. When you started this project, was your primary goal to unify others, to fill some kind of emptiness, or something else entirely? Have your goals evolved over time?
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Climatic Exile: An Interview with Erik Martiny
George Salis: You have two new novels out since 2018, The Pleasures of Queueing and Night of the Long Goodbyes. The former novel was published first so technically it is your debut, but which one is your first novel? Also, how do these novels compare and contrast? Are they in conversation with each other or totally disparate?
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Hungrily Poetic: An Interview with Barton Smock
George Salis: What has influenced you then and what influences you now?
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