On Painting Your Lobster: An Interview with Nell Freudenberger by Olena Jennings
Nell Freudenberger's debut novel The Dissident explores the cultural collision of a famous Chinese artist/political activist and the Los Angeles family who hosts him during his artist's residency at their daughter's high school.

In the Name of Fiction: Impetus Press and the Risks They Took by Olena Jennings Impetus Press is about challenging the notion that serious readers aren’t concerned with pop culture, and that mainstream readers are mindless. “We’re trying to reach readers that are frustrated with having their fiction spoon-fed to them..."

100 Posters, 134 Squirrels: An Interview with Silkscreen Artist Jay Ryan by Michael Liss

Morgan Entrekin on Publishing, Partying and Promoting by Suzanne Dottino

Girlbomb: An Interview with Janice Erlbaum by Cheryl Burke
Janice Erlbaum’s memoir, Girlbomb, explores the delicate and explosive territory of her "halfway homeless" teenage years. At fifteen-years-old, she left her mother’s Brooklyn home after an argument and became a resident of Covenant House, a shelter for homeless teens.

Bear Most Wanted: An Interview with Author Clifford Chase by Michael Liss
Clifford Chase's Winkie, one of the most buzzed about books this summer, spins a fairy tale about a teddy bear willing himself to life only to be wrongly arrested as a terrorist mastermind

Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi by John Haskell
"I recently went to the show at the Noguchi Museum called "Best of Friends" ... what struck me wasn't the work itself, but the sense of idealism that their work was based on, an idealism that permeated the culture of the time, and an idealism that now seems largely absent."

On a Clear Night You Can Read Forever: Scribblers on the Roof by Mary Phillips-Sandy
Cynthia Ozick, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Dara Horn, and Binnie Kirshenbaum are among the authors who have read at the Congregation Ansche Chesed's “Scribblers on the Roof” series, and they are among the authors who have contributed to a forthcoming anthology of the same name.

Jhumpa Lahiri on PEN's World Voices Interview by Suzanne Dottino
So many roles for Lahiri: VP of PEN, Pulitzer Prize winner, mother, and actress (though she claims she is just "an extra") in the film adaptation of her book.

A Moment with Etgar Keret by Aaron Hamburger
"I feel my work is very political. It many times talks about racism, fear, hatred or all the other emotions that create the relationship between an individual and the society he lives in. The problem is that in the Israeli tradition political writing must be pragmatic."

Andrew Berends’ The Blood of My Brother by Michael Liss
Andrew Berends' powerful documentary The Blood of My Brother tells the story of the war in Iraq from a perspective rarely seen in the U.S. – that of an Iraqi family grieving for its eldest son.

Soft Skull Press According to Richard Nash by Susan Chi
There’s a “male” and “female” publishing system, says Nash. But, he’s developing a three-pronged model for his known subversive press. During the interview Nash uses the words, bat-shit-crazy, but he’s not referring to himself but to something much grander and fundamental to us all.