interview

  • Confession time: I have never really been a poet. I took poetry classes in school because it was a part of my requirements for my major, but I never really felt I could write a good poem to save my life. I was always a novelist, dedicated to my long form and my epic storytelling…

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  • The last few days here in Chicago have been really hot and humid, finally with a cool down with a fantastic thunderstorm last night, but that kind of muggy weather is just the thing to turn my mind toward this month’s Featured Story, “The Scrimshawed Ostrich Egg,” from author Robert Allen Lupton. It’s been a…

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  • We’re quickly approaching the end of the month of April (how in the world does it seem to go by so fast?), which means we’re overdue to sit down and have an interview with this month’s featured author, Sarah Gribble. Her story, “Lullaby Land,” is a short, bittersweet look at loss and grieving, bringing a…

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  • It’s a little late in the month, so you’ve only got about one more week to read James Wylder’s thrilling space adventure story, “To Catch a President,” for free as our Featured Story for March, but it will be (pretty much) forever available in the World Unknown Review Volume III. After a bit of a…

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  • I’ve made no secret about my fondness for “Selective Memory,” this month’s Featured Story from Volume II of the World Unknown Review, and I’ve equally enjoyed my interactions with its author, Adam L. Bealby. So I was naturally excited to get around to interviewing him for the feature and getting inside his quirky little brain…

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  • One of the best things about editing the World Unknown Review is meeting great new authors that might not have otherwise entered my radar, although they really should be there. S.L. Dixon is one of those authors, and I’m not just saying that because we share pen name initials. He brought us our featured story…

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