For this Non-Reader spotlight, we talk to Kathryn Wakeman about not reading, tv, East of Eden, Eat Pray Love, reading the internet, deadlines, feminism, unlikeable female characters, uncontrollable agreeability. 

HOBART: Maybe I'm seeing a connection where there isn't one and this doesn't apply more to writers than... more

  On April 9, my debut novel League of... more

Barb Johnson worked as a carpenter in New Orleans for more than 20 years before entering the MFA program at the... more

The twelve stories in Susan Steinberg’s stunning third book, Spectacle, limn... more

I read for the same reason that I fish. So I can feel what I can’t see.

I read for the same reason that I fish. So I can feel what I can’t see.

  "Thought of you and our conversations this morning when I read David Shields' Riff column in the... more

Hello, readers. This is the first of two interviews with writer Ron Currie Jr. on the occasion of the publication... more

And then there's Rob Delaney. The next time Rob Delaney tweets—which is probably... more

For this non-reader spotlight, I talked to Sean Olumstad. Sean and I met as undergrad theatre majors at Illinois Wesleyan, but Sean made the wise move to pursuing a career in nursing.

When I see them on Saturday in St. Louis, it will be the sixth time I will have seen Rush live, and I will have seen them in three different decades of my life – my 20s, 30s and 40s.

Texas gets a bad rap because it's filled with assholes, but really if you take any area the size of Texas anywhere it will be filled with assholes, because that's what people are.​

Of course, I think that Mark Twain is true.   I think that Samuel Clemens is the lie.  Only a dishonest person wants you to know that a story they are telling "really happened."

Thrift stores are full of possibility and sadness, which makes them perfect settings for fiction, in my opinion.

For this edition of the Non-Reader Spotlight, I’m thrilled to be talking about reading and not reading with Mary Hamilton.

Spend enough time on Twitter and you will eventually discover there is within it an... more

A short interview about punk rock and aging with NoMeansNo drummer John Wright & guitarist Tom Holliston

In 2010, Michael Martone began conducting a series of interviews. Each of these interviews was written under... more

"I think I'm just trying to be a good listener."

"...the activity is difficult and risky and can be the source of great dissonance if it reaches the point of cognition."

First a note about what I’m doing here: talking to people who consider themselves non-readers.

An interview with Ted Sanders, author of No Animals We Could Name.

    Chelsea Martin is easily one of the sweetest persons I know, as well... more

  Tom Williams: What do you find funny? John Warner: I find lots of... more