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

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

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