ARTICLES

“JOLLYING READERS ALONG TO THE EDGE OF A CLIFF”: A CONVERSATION WITH KATE MCINTYRE in Split Lip Magazine : “At the end of each Golden Age mystery novel, in the last twenty pages or so, the detective shows how all the disparate elements “add up.”… With enough creative thinking by the detective, the laws of physics are upheld: A person cannot levitate across a beach to commit murder (Dorothy L. Sayers) or traverse a snowy path without leaving a print (G. K. Chesterton) or enter and exit a room locked from the inside (Edgar Allan Poe, in one of the very earliest detective stories). Similarly, in my short stories, I want a hidden logic to emerge by the end, even as plots push into the literary fantastic.”

“CENTERING THE LAND IN SARAHLAND”: A CONVERSATION WITH SAM COHEN in Split Lip Magazine : These stories unfurl with momentum, a Möbius strip where inside is outside is inside again. There’s a recurring theme of porous or absent boundaries—not just between the self and other, but the self and the self and the self (ad infinitum).

Pokémon Go in Walla Walla, Washington in The Union-Bulletin/Lifestyles Magazine: Whether residents of Walla Walla realize it or not, their neighbors, friends, baristas, health care providers, teachers and winemakers are playing Pokémon Go.