Hypertext Interview with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
October 9, 2018
The best short stories sweep us into their emotional undertow, deftly transport us to other worlds, dig beneath the skin…
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Excerpt: Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS
October 9, 2018
Neela: Bhopal, 1984 You always trusted the forest. Here, danger can be seen and is known. The floor is layered…
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Hypertext Interview With Chris Campanioni
September 28, 2018
By Christine Rice Is there a term for someone who is more than a ‘renaissance’ person? A person who excels…
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Excerpt: Chris Campanioni’s DRIFT
September 28, 2018
Nobody My name is Nadié and I am nineteen years old but my agency tells clients I’m sixteen—that I, in…
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Hypertext Interview with Rita Dragonette
September 18, 2018
By Christine Rice In the mid-1980s, I was assigned journalist and historian Frances FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, a book…
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Excerpt: Christine Eberle’s Finding God in Irreverence
September 17, 2018
And Jesus wept. — John 11:35 The young mother in the emergency room was rushed there straight from her son’s…
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ONE QUESTION: Christine Eberle
September 17, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Christine Eberle, author of FINDING GOD IN ORDINARY TIME, “Your stories are from real life; which one…
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ONE QUESTION: Connor Coyne
September 9, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Connor Coyne, author of Urbantasm: The Dying City, “Why are stories about Flint, Michigan important to the…
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Excerpt: Connor Coyne’s URBANTASM: THE DYING CITY
September 9, 2018
Almost everything had been torn down, and the shrubs and trees had been growing for so long that the block…
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ONE QUESTION: Sarah Ivens
August 31, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Sarah Ivens, author of Forest Therapy, “What question do you wish you’d been asked about your work?”…
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Excerpt: Sarah Iven’s Forest Therapy
August 31, 2018
Fall in Love Autumn is the season when the world mellows out and takes stock on what has already been…
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Excerpt: Rita Dragonette’s THE FOURTEENTH OF SEPTEMBER
August 30, 2018
Lottery Night They had decided they would all watch the lottery drawing at David’s dorm, since that’s where most of…
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ONE QUESTION: Rita Dragonette
August 29, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Rita Dragonette, author of The Fourteenth of September, “Why did you feel it was important to tell a…
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ONE QUESTION: Willie Davis
August 3, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Willie Davis, author of Nightwolf, “Why don’t your characters ever fall in love?” By Willie Davis The question…
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Excerpt: NIGHTWOLF by Willie Davis
August 3, 2018
The Alaska Scam It started with a miracle.  It was a useless miracle, but it still counted as a jaw-dropper,…
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Hypertext Interview with John McNally
July 27, 2018
By Christine Rice For nearly 20 years, John McNally has been busy writing novels, books on craft, essay collections, short…
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Excerpt: John McNally’s THE PROMISE OF FAILURE
July 27, 2018
THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN, REDUX DEPRESSION AND FAILURE By John McNally Writing a book saved my…
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Me and Only Me by Matthew Turkot
July 27, 2018
“Come on, Ella,” I plead, pulling on the leash, “just fucking go already.” I’ve been outside in the rain for…
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ONE QUESTION: Sarah Ward
July 24, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Sarah Ward, author of Aesop Lake, “What makes Aesop Lake a unique book for young adults in today’s…
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Excerpt: Sarah Ward’s AESOP LAKE
July 24, 2018
Ricky’s chest moves up and down, but some­times his breath is uneven. His skin is cold and clammy. I need…
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ONE QUESTION: Greg Olear
July 19, 2018
HYPERTEXT MAGAZINE ASKED GREG OLEAR, AUTHOR OF DIRTY RUBLES: AN INTRODUCTION TO TRUMP/RUSSIA, “WHAT QUESTION DO YOU WISH YOU’D BEEN…
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Excerpt: Greg Olear’s Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia
July 19, 2018
Let’s begin with the lies—or, rather, with one lie, the same lie that was repeated time and time again. The…
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The Burden of Me by David Klose
July 11, 2018
This is Thomas as he takes a deep drag from his pen cap, calling his mother’s name. Lauren. Tonight is…
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Motor Skills by Claire Hopple
July 9, 2018
I finally met your mother but not in the way I had always imagined it. She had taken me for…
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The Rescue by Heather Denniss
June 29, 2018
At the center of the bridge, at the spot she guessed to be the span’s exact center, Laura Mae stopped.…
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My Bed and Others by Patricia Ann McNair
June 29, 2018
Doing the dishes with the radio on. The orange man in the white house claims he has been affected by…
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Hypertext Interview With Anya Krugovoy Silver
June 22, 2018
By Karen Halvorsen Schreck Beauty might save the world. At least it might be our best shot. Read any poem by Anya Krugovoy…
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Big Family by Christine Sneed
June 11, 2018
She and Harold had seven children! How on earth had this happened? some of her friends, all with fewer or…
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Clammy Hands by Peter Ferry
June 5, 2018
What if your hands hadn’t been clammy that morning? What if you didn’t smoke so that the night before when…
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ONE QUESTION: Erin Dorney
May 31, 2018
HYPERTEXT MAGAZINE ASKED ERIN DORNEY, AUTHOR OF I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE: POEMS AFTER SHIA LABEOUF, “WHAT QUESTION DO YOU…
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