By Tony Wolk
Notes on Sam Greenlee.
All in Interviews
Chester Himes
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Chester Himes.
Alex Haley
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Alex Haley.
John A. Williams
By Tony Wolk
Notes on John A. Williams.
Bobby Seale
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Bobby Seale.
The Most Intimate Act of Reading
By Joshua Pollock
Jeannine Marie Pitas on translation, influence, and work still to do.
An Unbroken Chain
By Joshua Pollock
Jeannine Marie Pitas talks about how forwarded paperwork, an influential teacher, and time in a library all played a role in her becoming a translator of Uruguayan poetry.
Long Days, Cheap Ham Sandwiches
Propeller Q&A
Aaron Gilbreath on This Is and Everything We Don’t Know.
How Do We Get Out of This World?
By Alex Behr
Desire and its suppression in the stories of Kimberly King Parsons, whose debut collection, “Black Light,” is one of ten books on the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.
Dan DeWeese Makes Absurd Argument Connecting Willie Nelson, Travis Scott, George Frideric Handel
On the radio program The Steer, Propeller Books editor Dan DeWeese chats with hosts Jeff Alessandrelli and Sunny Bleckinger about connections between music from Willie Nelson, Pink Floyd, Sade, George Michael, Travis Scott, and George Frideric Handel.
Art and Social Practice
By Alex Behr
“For this project, which is ongoing, I spend a long time with the people that I’m working with, all their stories, because I’m not interested in telling my version of their story. The goal is to do the best job I possibly can of being a vehicle to people to tell their story.” Wendy MacNaughton’s Meanwhile in San Francisco documents insular pockets: the mah jongg players in Chinatown, the regulars at the main branch of the public library, the swimmers at the Dolphin Club, and the single-room occupancy folks of 6th Street.
Matthew Robinson Discusses The Horse Latitudes at Fiction Writers Review
In a Memorial Day post at Fiction Writers Review, Propeller Books author Matthew Robinson discusses (with Propeller contributing editor Thea Prieto) the challenge of writing about war.
Does a priest like God?
By Daneen Bergland & Wendy Bourgeois
A conversation about poetry, philosophy, the role of autobiography in criticism, and Wendy Bourgeois’s essay collection, The Devil Says Maybe I Like It.
Moments of Discovery
By Mary Rechner
Debra Gwartney talks about structure and self-awareness in her new memoir, I am a Stranger Here Myself.
Allegorical and Absolutely Human
By Thea Prieto
Megan Hunter’s debut novel, The End We Start From (Grove Atlantic, 2017), is a lyrical vision of new motherhood in the midst of environmental fallout.
After Several Years of Living
Evan P. Schneider chats with Melissa Reeser Poulin about her new poetry collection, Rupture, Light (Finishing Line Press).
Building Meaning at the Mixing Board
Dan DeWeese chats with Cheston Knapp about his essay collection Up Up, Down Down.
Milk and Motherhood
By Sheila Heti and Dorothea Lasky
The novelist Sheila Heti and the poet Dorothea Lasky spoke over email for several weeks about their new books, Motherhood (Henry Holt) and Milk (Wave Books). Heti is the author of seven previous books, including the 2012 novel How Should a Person Be? which was a New York Times Notable Book and was called by Time magazine “one of the most talked-about books of the year.” Lasky is the author of four previous full-length collections of poetry, including ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton) and Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all from Wave Books.