In their first online issue (after sixty years in print) I give an interview to the literary journal Shenandoah, for which I was once lucky enough to stuff envelopes as an undergraduate. Read my interview here, and please continue to support this storied and important journal by reading the whole issue (James Dickey! Betty Adcock! Brendan Galvin!) here and passing on the link!
I wrote the back page for the September issue of Poets & Writers magazine. Click here to read my essay on the importance of an online writing community (at least for those of us with babies on our shoulders).
I recently wrote a guest blog for Her Circle Enzine on coming to terms with the necessary historical research for my novel-in-progress, The Happensack. Included are some of my favorite non-boring research tools (hooray for the Sears catalog) for writers looking into a specific year in the past.
Follow the link to my interview with Erika Dreifus for her newsletter and website, The Practicing Writer. I talk about how my own childhood library experiences shaped the writing of The Borrower, and about why my students aren’t allowed to read my book.
Click here for my Steve Bertrand on Books interview, wherein I discuss pathological lying, Ian’s future cameos, and whether God cares about short stories.
I spoke with Mitch Teich of WUWM Milwaukee’s Lake Effect about the inspiration for The Borrower. The online version features expanded audio and a reading.
I answered questions recently for the Louisville Courier-Journal about my influences, literary and otherwise. Read the article online here!
In response to some questions I’ve gotten about the reading lists mentioned at the end of The Borrower, I decided to post my recommended reading for LGBT teens as a video for the It Gets Better Project. Click through here to watch the video on You Tube, and please comment with your own recommendations!
A lovely review of The Borrower and a brief conversation with me are up on the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy (their arts and entertainment blog). As a side note, I love that Rupert Murdoch has now inadvertently paid twice to publicize my rather liberal novel. 
My new interview is up at The Millions. Click through to find out how the pediatrician’s waiting room is like Wordsworth’s lake country, why I hate Tolstoy, and why I refer to myself as a “skeezy drug dealer.”
