Blog Interview: Reopening Of Madison Cinema LRR, March 24, 2022February 8, 2025 Michaela Flaherty shows us what it takes to run an independent Movie Theatre in her interview with Lizzy O’Gara the general manager of Madison Cinemas… Continue Reading
Blog The Stories We Tell Part 2: Sam Bastille LRR, March 11, 2022February 8, 2025 Nicole Catarino, Editor in Chief of the Long River Review, interviews our team member, Sam Bastille. In this interview, we get to see what the creative process of writing is like for one individual and how that process intermingles with tabletop role-playing games… Continue Reading
Blog The Stories We Tell Part 1: Eileen Sholomicky LRR, February 21, 2022February 8, 2025 When you write, what are you really writing about? It’s the age-old question, and one that Nicole Catarino explores in an interview with LRR’s own fiction editor, Eileen Sholomicky 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
An Interview with Dr. William Jelani Cobb by Sten Spinella (2016) LRR, May 5, 2016March 5, 2024 This is the unedited transcript of Dr. Cobb’s interview. The edited version is printed in the Long River Review’s physical copy. Dr. William Jelani Cobb is a nationally-known intellectual who has written books, essays, and anthologies on everything from the history of hip-hop to the Cold War to racism and… Continue Reading
An Interview with Carl Phillips, Poet and Professor by Sten Spinella (2016) LRR, May 1, 2016March 5, 2024 I only had 30 minutes to speak to poet Carl Phillips, which was just enough time to access his worldview, yet a woefully insufficient amount of time to truly get at the thickness of his poetry. It was by far the friendliest interview I have ever conducted. Phillips was flexible… Continue Reading
Make It A Big Deal: An Interview with Matvei Yankelevich by Carleton Whaley (2016) LRR, May 1, 2016March 5, 2024 Matvei Yankelevich is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Ugly Duckling Presse, which he started in the late 1990’s with a group of friends. He designs and edits books for UDP, curates the Eastern European Poets Series (since 2002), and co-edits 6×6 magazine (since 2000). He shares duties as UDP’s Co-Executive Director with… Continue Reading
An Interview with Novelist and Short Story Writer Laura van den Berg by Carleton Whaley (2016) LRR, April 27, 2016June 16, 2017 Laura van den Berg is a short story writer and novelist known for her collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, as well as her debut novel Find Me, which was listed as a “Best of 2015” by NPR,… Continue Reading
Deciphering DIAGRAM with Ander Monson by Allison McLellan and Alexandra Cichon (2016) LRR, April 19, 2016June 16, 2017 DIAGRAM is an online magazine that, as its name suggests, stands out in the unique use of obscure diagrams and schematics accompanying written works displayed in refreshing, innovative ways, including fiction, poetry, and comics. Although the magazine stands out by charging new ground, I find I cannot try to sum… Continue Reading
Keeping a Beginner’s Mind: An Interview with Dave Mercier by Carleton Whaley (2016) LRR, March 12, 2016June 16, 2017 Dave Mercier is the creator of the comic Mercworks, a weekly webcomic strip. He has self-published two collections of his comics, Mercworks: The Joy of Despair and Mercworks: The Cure for the Human Condition. Carleton Whaley: So I guess I’ll just start off with a basic question about Mercworks. How long have… Continue Reading