Jason Chambers: The Three Guys first came across Roger Smith about a year ago, prior to the release of his first novel Mixed Blood. Read the whole conversation, where we all were in agreement, surprisingly enough, about the merits of his writing and...

The following story is something I wrote for my first public reading, which took place Friday December 11th at Happy Endings Lounge in New York City. The main character of this story works for a supermarket chain as a district manager, and this is her...

Jason Rice: Emily St. John Mandel; I ignored her first novel for a long time. Then I saw an advertisement for it in the New York Times Book Review, and someplace else, I just can’t remember where. What was all the fuss about, I thought. Mother of God...

Jess Walter (The Zero, Citizen Vince) is an expansive writer. He has more voice in his little finger than most novelists will ever possess. He can digress, delineate, rant, rave, ponder, speculate, ruminate, fulminate, and bring the story to a...

Hesh Kestin’s novel, The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats (Dzanc), has been described as “The Godfather meets The Chosen.” The poignant coming-of-age story of a bookish college student adopted by one of the last of America’s Jewish gangsters, it was...