On Plotting Suspense: An Interview with Author Megan Collins LRR, April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 CHARLIE CASE: Welcome to the Long River Rewind. Today we have a special guest: mystery and thriller novelist Megan Collins, who we the interviewers have had the privilege of being taught by in the past. SOPHIA CIRALDO: Megan is the author of Thicker than Water, The Family Plot, Behind… Continue Reading
Penelope Pelizzon: Language and Place in A Gaze That Hunteth By the Eye LRR, March 1, 2024March 5, 2024 Penelope Pelizzon is the author of the poetry collections Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time (2014) and Nostos (2000), which won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her upcoming book, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye, has just been published in the… Continue Reading
Interviews Powerful Trilogies and Publishing Tips: An Interview with Caragh M. O’Brien LRR, June 17, 2022March 5, 2024 Caragh M. O’Brien is the author of two wildly popular YA dystopian trilogies: “Birthmarked” and “Vault of Dreamers.” Read on to learn more about O’Brien’s inter-genre, many-layered journey through the world of writing and publishing! Continue Reading
Interviews An Interview with Lynda Loigman LRR, July 3, 2021March 5, 2024 Matthew Wisnefsky discusses publication and writing strategies with novelist Lynda Loigman… Continue Reading
An Interview with Aarushi Nohria LRR, June 5, 2021March 5, 2024 Mia Yanosy asks Aetna Translation Award winner Aarushi Nohria about her experience translating Continue Reading
An Interview with Anna Scoppetone LRR, May 22, 2021March 5, 2024 Abbey Campbell sits down with Anna Scoppetone to discuss “My Father’s Lemon Tree” Continue Reading
Interviews An Interview with Professor Ellen Litman LRR, May 8, 2021March 5, 2024 Camryn Johnson talks about creative writing with Professor Ellen Litman Continue Reading
Interview with Poet Kimiko Hahn, By Taylor Caron (2017) LRR, June 18, 2017March 5, 2024 Kimiko Hahn is a nationally recognized and accoladed poet with 10 diverse collections of poetry to her name. These include Volatile, The Artist’s Daughter, The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems, and the recent Brain Fever. One can track the trajectory of her career by observing the variety of poses… Continue Reading
“The things that hold you back can often help you”: An Interview with Poet Allison Joseph, By Taylor Caron (2017) LRR, June 17, 2017March 5, 2024 It’s been said that expectations are best kept low when meeting a brilliant writer. This advice makes sense when one considers that a writer is presenting their best, most polished self on the page. The real thing should inevitably yield disappointing. I feel privileged in being able to verify that… Continue Reading
Reflections on Writing, Medicine, and More with Nikki Rubin, former LRR Poetry Editor by Stephanie Koo (2016) LRR, May 19, 2016March 5, 2024 Interview by Steph Koo I had the opportunity to speak with Nikki Rubin, LRR alum, survivor of UCONN medical school, newly-minted doctor extraordinaire, over video chat this past weekend. Our talk ranged from writing experiences, to her decision to choose OB/GYN as her specialty, to my own anxieties over choosing… Continue Reading