If you’re like me, the luxury of longer days during the summer months will inevitably summon the desire for self-improvement. And while it can often be too easy to identify something we want to change about our bodies, taking our words... Read More
A resident of Davis, California, Matt Biers-Ariel is a public school English teacher. The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast: Our Family’s Cross-Country Ride of Passage by Bike was published by Mountaineers Books. Anything you learned about your... Read More
Matt Bell lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is an editor at Dzanc Books. His fiction appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Cataclysm Baby is published by Mud Luscious Press. Tell us about the title of your book. To what does it... Read More
Seventy thousand authors defied the vanity press stigma last year and launched their titles online as print-on-demand or eBooks. But absent the editorial, marketing, and sales infrastructure of a supportive publishing house, most of these... Read More
Why does Interlink Books exist? Frustration is the mother of all inspirations. Back in 1987, I was a young, angry student activist, unhappy about US foreign policy and America’s interventions abroad. So when I finished college, I started... Read More
Family sagas are more than incidents recounted at holiday dinners—stories shape lives, and altering those tales, however slightly, can have grave consequences. Secrets have the power to forever change a person’s outlook and even turn... Read More
I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antæus … This was my curious labor all summer—to make this portion of the earth’s surface, which had... Read More
Good parents want what’s best for their children—and, by extension, for themselves. After two decades of the “too much is still not good enough” philosophy that mandated endless play dates, sports practice, and every conceivable... Read More