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The Interview

We have spent hours listening to our favorite artists take part in interviews that feel like you’re sitting right there in the room with them, as the rest of the world melts away and, for a moment, everything feels clearer. A good interview is another piece of literature in its own right.

That’s the feeling we’d like offer our readers as they experience your work. An interview helps unlock what even an astute reader might miss, and also carries us past the story or essay itself—into the mind and heart of the one that conjured it. Ultimately, we want to publish writers, not just what they’ve written.

Thank you for taking part in this interview. We may send you some follow-up questions soon after you complete this!

Your name

Piece we're publishing:

Tell us your origin story as a writer. When did you begin? What first drew you to writing as an instrument for asking questions that can’t be explored any other way?

What does your writing routine look like? Do you thrive in structure or wildness? And when you begin a piece of writing, what tends to announce itself first: a voice, an image, an unease, a philosophical conundrum?

Most artists are preoccupied by certain obsessions: lust, longing, death, the self. What persistent preoccupation—emotional, intellectual, or spiritual—threads through your work? Are there motifs, themes, or impulses you’ve tried to abandon but that keep returning, insisting on their relevance?

If not a writer, who would you be?

What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received? Alternatively/additionally, what’s something you’d like to offer as advice to emerging writers trying to make a mark?

What are you working on now and how is it trying to ruin your life (in a good, necessary way, of course)?

Who are the artists—writers, filmmakers, thinkers, internet oddities—that have shaped your sense of narrative? How have they rearranged the way you see the world on the page?

Please recommend a piece of art (a painting, a film, an album, anything that's not a piece of creative writing, really) that you love and would like everyone to experience.