Fiction and poetry from the Great Lakes region
Joseph Heywood’s novel, Killing a Cold One, is currently number 5 on the U.P. Bestseller list. Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? Mountains of the Misbegotten is the second in a new series intended to …
Mardi Jo Link’s memoir Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm was #14 on the Michigan Bestseller List in October. She spoke to us about some of her other projects, too. Tell us a little about your book and …
Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? Five Days Left tells the story of two people who have five days left with the ones they love. Mara is a Type A lawyer living in …
RON RIEKKI INTERVIEWS JOHN SMOLENS RR: Authors Beverly Matherne, Austin Hummell and Vincent Reusch claim that your opening chapter to Cold is one of the great all-time pieces of literature for Michigan’s U.P. Why do you think it is so …
DAVID BOWEN INTERVIEWS TOM WELLS Tom Wells is the co-founder and artistic director of Two Pence Theater Company, an organization devoted to theater of the Early Modern period, including that of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline playwrights, and Shakespeare in …
JIM DANIELS INTERVIEWED BY MEREDITH COUNTS Meredith Counts recently had the opportunity to interview Detroit-reared and Pittsburgh-based fiction writer and poet Jim Daniels, whose newest book of short stories, Eight Mile High, was released in the summer of 2014 by …
This is part of a blog relay to which GLR editor Rob Jackson was invited to participate in by Chicago writer Don DeGrazia. You can see Don’s answers to the same questions, which speak to character, here, on Paulette Livers’ blog. …
Ani DiFranco interviews painter Jim Mott about his travels, his ongoing Itinerant Artist Project, and his upcoming Great Lakes Tour. For more information about the project, visit Mott’s website, www.jimmott.com. ANI: Maybe you could start by telling me where the …
Michael Heaton sits down with Alissa Nutting, author of “Tampa.” An excerpt from the Fall 2013 issue. Michael Heaton: This book is pure filth. Yes or no? Alissa Nutting: Gauging the purity of filth strikes me as a difficult task. …
