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Rosalie Morales Kearns: The TNB Self-Interview
Kingdom of Women’s main character, Averil Parnell, is the world’s first female Roman Catholic priest. We learn early on in the novel that she’s the lone survivor of a massacre of 22 women who were...
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Excerpt from Improvement, by Joan Silber
Everyone knows this can happen. People travel and they find places they like so much they think they’ve risen to their best selves just by being there. They feel distant from everyone at home who can’t...
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Joan Silber: The TNB Self-Interview
So Improvement is your eighth book of fiction. The last three books—which have done just fine, in my opinion—are books of linked stories. How come you decided to write a novel? I wrote novels before I...
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Excerpt of The Night Language, by David Rocklin
Chapter One 17 December 1900 Villefranche At last, some daylight. The sun broke through in the afternoon, following two days of thick black clouds and downpours that had him spending his holiday...
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David Rocklin: The TNB Self-Interview
Tell us about your new novel, The Night Language. But you’re me. Or I’m me. I – we? – already know. Only one question in and already you’re a meta pain in the ass. Fine. The Night Language, out on...
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Excerpt from The Through, by A. Rafael Johnson
Fairy tales terrified me when I believed in things. On my fifth birthday, one of Mama’s lady friends, Miss Janice, came over for dinner. We weren’t having a party or anything that year, just a quiet...
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A. Rafael Johnson: The TNB Self-Interview
What is your debut novel, The Through, about? The novel has two protagonists, Ben and Adrian. Adrian is a dual survivor of Hurricane Katrina and childhood sexual abuse. Her boyfriend Ben can’t make a...
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TNB Original Fiction: “Ghosts” by Jamie Moore
Ghosts have always been real. I knew that from my dreams, but I never talked about it because no one else did, so I thought I wasn’t supposed to either. They came to see me in my dreams and sometimes...
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Excerpt of World Gone Missing, by Laurie Ann Doyle
From the short story “Here I Am” I’m the last thing people imagine when they think of a funeral director. For this late night house call, I’m wearing a purple dress and heels to match; my nails are...
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Laurie Ann Doyle: The TNB Self-Interview
The stories in World Gone Missing all explore a central theme: that people don’t become fully visible until they disappear. What brought that theme about? The truth is I didn’t pick that theme as much...
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Excerpt of Christmas in July, by Alan Michael Parker
“Blue the Dog, stay.” The girl was trying to vomit again, retching, and Blue the Dog was worried, whining with that little huffing noise, his nostrils flaring, his big tail smacking against the leg of...
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TNB Original Fiction: “The Summer Lolly” by Breena Clarke
Cleary took rooms in a cottage at the seaside. I was sick in the worst way since I heard what happened to the preacher woman. I cried, and he threatened me. He said he would leave me and, at first, I...
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It Ends When You Decide To End It: An Interview with Elizabeth Ellen
I saw Elizabeth Ellen before I’d read any of her work. There was a photo of her on a flyer for a book tour during the fall of 2014, and it piqued my interest so I googled her book Fast Machine. The...
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Excerpt of The Lost Daughter Collective, by Lindsey Drager
The lost daughter collective gathers on the top floor of an abandoned umbrella factory in the downtown of a mid-sized city. The group is composed of men who meet weekly to harness their mourning, a...
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Lindsey Drager: The TNB Self-Interview
Tell us what The Lost Daughter Collective is about, concerned with, proposing. The Lost Daughter Collective presents the story of a Wrist Scholar who tells his shadow-puppet obsessed daughter the...
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Excerpt of Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, by Peg Alford Pursell
Petal, Feather, Particle Show her a flower, a bird, a shadow, and she will show you what is simultaneously forming and falling apart. What is both witness and sign along the way on this rough earth, a...
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Peg Alford Pursell: The TNB Self-Interview
Do you think it’s necessary to start off with a self-conscious question acknowledging that you are talking to yourself publicly? No. Good, now that we have that out of the way, let’s get straight to...
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Excerpt of To the Stars through Difficulties, by Romalyn Tilghman
TORNADO DEMOLISHES KANSAS TOWN NEW HOPE, Ks. (AP)—The entire community of Prairie Hill, Kansas (population 2754) was demolished Saturday evening by a tornado the National Weather Bureau rated EF-5, the...
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Romalyn Tilghman: The TNB Self-Interview
You really carried around notes for this novel for several decades? Yep. Those notes have lived in the garages of nine homes in five states during that time. I was 24 years old when I was hired to work...
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Excerpt of The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry
*Official May selection of the TNB Book Club. NEW YEAR’S EVE A young man walks down by the banks of the Blackwater under the full cold moon. He’s been drinking the old year down to the dregs, until...
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