Issue #25

Some excerpts from Issue 25:

I started writing letters and keeping a journal that dealt with the things I saw and heard on the street or in the grocery store, which is a way of compiling information for future use.—Beverly Lowry, interviewed by Stephanie Gordon

I would like you to take the story away with you in your head, to remember it and conceivably to recognize part of your own life in the story, and to recognize the story in part of your own life. —Charles Baxter, interviewed by Linda B. Swanson-Davies

I was always a reader, the kind of kid who read constantly. Very early on it seemed to me a way to be bigger than I was, know more than I should know, travel more than anyone I knew had traveled.

—Jayne Anne Phillips, interviewed by Sarah Anne Johnson

Out in the plains you can see forever. You can see your neighbors, their houses, and there’s nothing hiding in them. You can see people working out in the barnyard. Yet there’s this distance between you that’s unbridgeable, and that’s very interesting to me.

—Kent Haruf, interviewed by Jim Nashold