Interview
Susan Bernofsky: You are the Conduit to the Book
Susan Bernofsky hails from Louisiana and is an alumna of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Now living in New York, she is a German language translator, a teacher at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and …
George Bishop: The Night of the Comet
Native Louisianan and Loyola alumnus (1983) George Bishop is emerging as a fresh and vibrant voice in the literary South. His previously successful novel Letter to My Daughter (Ballantine, 2010) showcased his ability to capture complex familial relationships in an …
Susan Larson: The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans
Susan Larson has established herself as the most visible individual guide to literary New Orleans. A new edition of her compendium, The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans, has just been released, offering updates to its takes on New Orleans …
Jeeps on the Route: James Marriott & Mika Minio-Paluello
A year ago, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello, activists at the London-based organization Platform, published The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London. An account of their travels along thousands of miles of BP …
Michael Farris Smith: Rivers
Born in rural Mississippi, the son of a Baptist preacher, Michael Farris Smith has been heralded as a new voice in Southern fiction. Smith’s numerous literary voices, though, are as autonomous from Southern fiction as they are from American fiction. …
Refugee Hotel
{From Press Street’s Room 220}
All images by Gabriele Stabile from Refugee Hotel
Refugees granted asylum in the United States arrive through only a handful of cities. They often spend the first night in their new country at a …
Honor the Stories: An Interview with Daniel Wolff
{From Press Street’s Room 220}
Writer Daniel Wolff came to New Orleans five months after Hurricane Katrina with filmmaker Jonathan Demme, not knowing what they’d find. They were told the story was over, that all the “good shots” had …
No One Lines Up That Simply
{From Press Street’s Room 220}
Sheila Heti’s third book, How Should a Person Be? is about Sheila. The character is a Toronto-based writer grappling with a play she can’t seem to finish, stuck in a marriage that stifles her. …
Rachel Kushner: I’m not sure there is a clear distinction between “to communicate” and “to monologue”
{From Press Street’s Room 220}
Like any historical novel—even one set in recent history—Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers is a convergence of the past and the present, the time before now rendered with the help of research but intrinsically influenced …
