NER fiction reader Alicia Romero talks with author Alan Rossi about his story “Did You Really Just Say That to Me?” and all that unfolds behind the opening line that made us all lean forward. ALICIA: The narrator in “Did You Really Just Say That to Me?” tells the story from a first person, subjective, point […]
Month: March 2017
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Alan Rossi
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Robert Stothart
Editor Carolyn Kuebler talks with Robert Stothart, who comes to the New England Review from Wyoming with his essay “Magpies” (37.4). He speaks of learning to write essays, of boyhood days at his uncle’s funeral home, teaching composition to Nooksack students (and listening to their parents), and living where the music of the coyotes mingles with Mozart […]
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Allison Benis White
NER poet Allison Benis White talks to poetry editor Rick Barot about the grief she reveals in the poems “Waldgeist,” “Sheathe,” and “Ignis Fatuus,” and how the power of language helps her think and feel most profoundly as she turns private grief into public art. RB: You have three achingly beautiful poems in the current issue of the magazine—“Waldgeist,” “Sheathe,” […]
