Comedy as Descent and Resurrection: A Conversation with Charlie Demers
By Interview Issue 123
I feel like faith makes me bulletproof.
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation between Molly McCully Brown and Amanda Cordero
By Interview Web Exclusive
When I heard in our staff meeting that Molly McCully Brown was joining our team as editor in chief, I immediately started clapping. And she deserves the applause, all of it—a month in, Molly has brought to the table what we always knew she would bring: a practiced sense of wonder, a capacious literary sensibility,…
Read MoreThe Honest Critic: A Conversation with Gerald Early
By Interview Issue 122
I hope I’m coming to everything I do with some kind of a Christian perspective or understanding, even if it isn’t very pronounced. This is part of what it means to me to be an honest writer.
Read MoreWeb Exclusive: A Conversation between Nick Ripatrazone & Jamie Quatro
By Interview Web Exclusive
At the 2024 Glen Workshop, Jamie Quatro was in conversation with Sophfronia Scott about the similarities and differences between writing fiction and nonfiction. Both writers are gifted across the two genres, and it was wonderful to hear the interplay between reality and imagination. Quatro shared that she is trained as a classical pianist, like her…
Read MoreFields of Revelation: A Conversation with Bruce Beasley
By Interview Issue 121
In many ways, all my poems are writings in a spiritual diary, both faithful and despairing (and seeking faith amid states of desolation).
Read MoreTo Arm Ourselves Instead with Questions
By Interview Issue 120
What I have decided, at least for now, is that I’m not afraid of the struggle. Jacob’s struggle with the man (or angel?) is my struggle. I’m not letting go. I’m holding on for the blessing. Blessing
Read MoreYou Write What You Can’t Forget: A Conversation with Richard Lischer
By Interview Issue 119
I believe memoir is the most intimate of genres and, for that reason, an excellent literary response to loneliness.
Read MoreA Conversation with Denise Levertov
By Interview Issue 18
Denise Levertov was born in England and came to the United States in 1948. She became known as one of the century’s most important poets and writers. Awards for her work included the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and the Lannan Prize. Her last years were spent in Seattle, Washington, where she won…
Read MoreDream of a New Rhythm: A Conversation with Miho Nonaka
By Interview Issue 118
It almost takes a supernatural power to insist on existing, belonging, and mattering as an embodied presence when you are an outsider.
Read MoreImage Issue 1: A Conversation with Frederick Buechner
By Interview Issue 1
For Image’s inaugural issue, editor Harold Ficket interviewed the Presbyterian minister, novelist, and memoirist Frederick Buechner (1926-2022), covering a range of topics of interest: inspiration for his novels, the ambiguity inherent to experiences of the divine, and the faith-informed vision necessary for seeing miracles. “God moves in these elusive, mysterious, ambiguous ways through our lives,”…
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