Interview

Through her innovative technique of crossing lines of charcoal, Anastasia Alexandrin is charting a fresh, new, course in the art world.

Everything I do that may seem different or separate from my writing, in fact, feeds my writing. I’m writing all the time, as I suspect most of us writers are, but I don’t mean physically putting pen to paper.

For novelist Thaddeus Rutkowski, 2012 has been a very good year.

Walter Ego once said that all thematic roads, no matter how circuitous, eventually lead back to love.

In writing the piece, I wanted to show variable manifestations of manic rage, and to blur the lines between the I, we, and she, so that landing on the mother-daughter relationship would be amplified.

In writing the piece, I wanted to show variable manifestations of manic rage, and to blur the lines between the I, we, and she, so that landing on the mother-daughter relationship would be amplified.

Marc
Shuster is one of those unique novelists who has not only mastered the art of
telling a tight story in the Aristotelian model of plot, character, and

"If you want to write a novel," says Joe Samuel Starnes, "don't wait until you think you'll have time.  As Harry Crews said, life will never give you time to write a novel.

With The Grievers (Permanent Press 2012), Marc has crafted a novel that deftly addresses the issues of loss, career procrastination, and self-worth through the misadventures of Charley Schwartz.

I  met Randall in October, 2009 at the Philadelphia Stories Push to Publish Writers Conference at Rosemont Colleg