Jenny Offill is the author of Last Things, and most recently, Dept. of Speculation.  In the words of Michael... more

Once I was cool, things would be easy. I’d know how to put on eyeliner correctly. I’d know what music to like. I‘d... more

But almost everyone is better to party with than writers. Like cops. Cops have way better stories than writers do.

Rauan has died before now. This revelation was not something divulged one evening when the blood had cooled and certain admissions... more

We need to leave room for bad days. But we also need to be brave enough to call people out. More understanding. Less fear. If I had a gospel, this is what I would preach—the gospel of tender rage. It’s not the same as punk rock, but it’s close.

Jim Ruland talks with J. Ryan Stradal about his new collaborative book Giving The Finger, the memoirs of Bering Sea... more

Mary Miller gets inside heads. I mean this in a non-creepy, invasive way, of course. It's a gift—some writers do... more

This one's massive. We're just going to get right into it.

Kyle, our friend, is the author of the new collection,... more

Benjamin Percy is the author most recently of the novel Red Moon (out this month in paperback), as well as... more

Here we collect a bunch of answers from the interviews we ran in 2013 that we think might serve you as inspiration and writerly... more

Delaney Nolan is the newest kid on the block. The one everyone whispers... more

Gabriel Blackwell’s been busy. In the past two... more

1. Prayer, according to the Encyclopedia of Occult and Parapsychology, is a “means for humans to make contact... more

Writers in M.F.A. programs assume, and are often told, that teaching means time away from... more

Hobart: We’ve seen each other at the last couple Mission Creek festivals in Iowa City, and it was there that we got to... more

As a writer, what draws me to wrestlers, superheroes, etc is probably what you pointed out, that when we first encounter them, they are overtly flat characters, cardboard. So I have a chance, even an obligation, to dig in and root around and find the human, expose him or her. Once we see someone else not as a caricature but a person, we can reflect off them, compare ourselves to them, feel empathy or disdain or any of the myriad of human reactions that matter. But we can’t just shrug and go, “Ah, janitor.”

You know him. You love him. He's Gabe Durham. His new book is FUN CAMP and it's a ball.

It's a... more

B.J. Hollars has no problem crossing literary boundaries. In his short... more

Bryan Furuness is a writer whose presence has long loomed large here at Hobart. He’s published work in the... more

Matthew Savoca has placed himself as a poignant... more

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 anyone else, but... 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 the... more