Joanna Pearson

Accessing the Strangeness: An Interview with Clare Beams about “The Garden”

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Accessing the Strangeness: An Interview with Clare Beams about "The Garden"

[ad_1] Clare Beams is a writer’s writer. Whenever I talk with fellow writers about work we admire, the fact of Clare’s genius is one on which we all seem to agree. From the moment her remarkable and wholly original debut story collection, We Show What We Have Learned, appeared, I fell in love with Clare’s … Read more

An Interview with Nick Fuller Googins – Chicago Review of Books

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An Interview with Nick Fuller Googins – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] I tore through Nick Fuller Googins’s debut novel, The Great Transition, over spring break, which my family spent in Wilmington, NC, a beautiful coastal town that could be substantially submerged by high tides as early as 2030 and completely underwater by 2100 if current carbon emission rates continue.  In The Great Transition, we meet … Read more