In Conversation

Interrupting the Present with Brian Platzer

Brian Platzer’s The Optimists is narrated by Rod Keating, a man who has suffered a stroke, telling the story of an extraordinary student named Clara, despite his limitations of speech and movemen...

Wayward Girls opens in Buffalo, New York, in the 1960s. Mairin O’Hara is working in an apple orchard with the sun overhead and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” playing on the radio. The...

Time travel in fiction often requires an elaborate device, like a machine, or a tear in the fabric of reality. In Victor Piñeiro’s middle grade novel Time Villains, it begins with a dinner invitati...

Weathering the Storm with Rebecca Mix

It was a cold afternoon in January when I spoke with Rebecca Mix. Snow had been threatening all morning, the kind of winter light that makes it hard to tell what time it is. Our conversation focuse...

A Letter from the Editor

I’ve been reading for the weather. Not metaphorically; literally reading, line after line, through novels, short stories, poems, and plays, in search of language that captures what’s happening outs...

Reading the Sky with Britney Truempy

Weather forecasts are usually delivered as data, but under the surface is something more subjective. Two meteorologists can study the same model and arrive at different conclusions, and two writers...