Index for Continuance

Join us for an hour-plus with Rebecca Wolff, founder and long-time editor of Fence the journal as well as Fence Books (disclosure: Hilary is a Fence author, we’ll get into it). We talk about the promise and problems of the ‘90s, “indie” structures and dreams, and the elusive concepts of “weird” and “cool.” Also discussed: professionalization, idiosyncrasy, money, obstinacy, being a “public art per...

In this episode, we talk to the writers, editors, publishers, translators, publicists, librarians, & brilliant commentators Peter Dimock, Eugene Lim, and Ian Dreiblatt. We explore the future of the book, the form of the novel, the political potency of experimental writing and publishing, the monetization of attention, and how to value reading over books, reading beyond the commodification of c...

In this episode, we talk to writers, teachers, and organizers Matt Weinkam (Executive Director) and Michelle Smith (Programming Associate) of Literary Cleveland , a (you guessed it) literary arts nonprofit here in (yep) Cleveland. We really get in there on jobs, work, what counts as “being a writer,” the necessity of cultivating multifarious skills as an artist, the erosion of the middle in arts l...

In this episode, Hilary talks to the writer Danielle Dutton, who is co-founder, editor, and designer of Dorothy, a publishing project . Subjects include feminist structures and practices in publishing, the patriarchies of the aughts, social media, new books by Amina Cain and Giada Scodallero, the meanings of “small,” success and going on, moving the books out of your basement. In the conversation...

In our first episode, we talk to Matvei Yankelevich, poet, translator, critic, editor, and publisher. You may know him as a founding member of the editorial collective Ugly Duckling Presse , current publisher of Winter Editions , and editor at World Poetry Books . His recent work includes the chapbook Dead Winter from Fonograf Editions and the co-translation, with Eugene Ostashevsky, of Alexander...