Dial Me A Story
In West Concord, behind the railroad tracks and to the side of the bike path, stands a bright yellow phone booth—yes, the kind we were so used to seeing everywhere, and once upon a time used, at least those of…
Interview with Martha Jean Johnson on her novel, The Queen’s Musician
“Divorced, Beheaded, Died; Divorced, Beheaded, Survived”, is the mnemonic used to remember the fates of Henry VIII’s famous six wives. But how can we recall the lives of those forgotten by history, yet no less pulled into the orbit of…
Jason Powell tackles Fear, Fire, and Fiction in debut novel No Man’s Ghost
Jason Powell’s debut novel, No Man’s Ghost, burns from the inside out. It’s full of the drama and pressure of a high stakes job with a refreshingly tender emotional story at its heart. Set in the engine houses and alleyways…
Meet Daryl Gregory: Author of When We Were Real
I’ve long thought of award-winning author Daryl Gregory as a writer’s writer. He’s not only hilarious, inventive and a hugely talented prose writer, but a master of craft. Lift the hood on any of Gregory’s books and you’ll learn a…
Interview with Christine Murphy, Author of Notes on Surviving the Fire
In her debut novel, Notes on Surviving the Fire, Christine Murphy takes us on a tumultuous ride through California wildfires and campus rape culture. It’s a brilliant, gutsy, and irreverently funny journey, both for the reader and for the main…
A Boy Like Me Revisited
I wrote and revised A Boy Like Me during the first year of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program. Two years later, on September 4, 2014, the book was published by 215 Ink. During the summer of 2024, Mike Perkins approached…