Interviews and Reviews

Interviews / Conversations

  • TODAY MUST BE SUNDAY. Recordings of these live zoom conversations can be found at the FOUR QUEENS YouTube Channel. Co-hosted with Shameka Cunningham. Guests have included Amanda Yates Garcia, Adriene Jenik, Lou Florez, Janice Lee, Kevin Garcia, Yolanda Pourciau, and more.

  • Brandi Homan interviews me, Damn Bandit Series, August 2021

  • Tope Folarin, Ryan Rivas and I talk about autofiction, whiteness, critical frames and more, Autofocus, July 2021

  • Paul Lisicky and I talk about queering the form and new books, Entropy, February 2021

  • Sarah Gerard and I talk about The Reconception of Marie on BOMB Magazine’s A Room with a View Series, November 2020.

  • Ryan Rivas interviews me, The Rumpus, November 2020

  • Emiko Okamura interviews me, Compulsive Reader, November 2020

  • Dana Diehl interviews me, The Collagist, June 2018

  • I interview Selah Saterstrom, Entropy, May 2018

  • Saehee Cho interviews me, Entropy, December 2014

  • I interview Stephanie Taylor, Frog Magazine

  • I interview Janet Owen and Matthew Driggs about Octupy Los Angeles, January 2012

  • Andrea Quaid interviews Amina Cain and I about Both Sides and the Center, Jacket 2, August 2011

Selected Reviews

  • “The Reconception of Marie Offers a Vibrant Queer Heroine,” Lambda Literary Review, Katie Jean Shinkle and PJ Carlisle, February 2021.

  • Stephanie Malak recommends Reconception, The Common, Friday Reads: February 2021.

  • “Writing Girlhood Large,” LA Review of Books, Vidhu Aggarwal on The Reconception of Marie, November 2020.

  • “Some Assembly Required”: Les Figues Press, Artistic Community, and the Printed Book as an Occasion for Dialogue,” Kenyon Review, Kristina Marie Darling on Les Figues, feminist, making and more, May 2019.

  • “The House is a Woman.” Fanzine. Andrea Lambert on Maison Femme, April 2016.

Michael and Ryan talk with Teresa Carmody about her new book THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE, autobiographical fiction vs. autofiction vs. Roman à clef, the histor...