The Interview Issue (Vol. 2)

Vol. 16, No. 2

Writers speak about their new work, published in 2023-24.

For Volume 1, please click on "Journal" to access the issue archive.

In this issue:

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Introduction to Interview Issue Vol. II

by Ann Hostetler

It’s been a joy to edit this interview issue (Volume II) of new (in 2024) books by writers with Mennonite heritage and connections. Our previous interview (Volume I) issue of books published since the 2022 Mennonite/s Writing conference (2022-2023) can be found in our archive here: https://mennonitewriting.org/journal/issues/

Together, these two issues offer a lively snapshot of the variety, talent, and innovation of the current state of Mennonite/s Writing. We hope they will pique interest in the upcoming Mennonite/s Writing Conference to be held in June 2025 at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg.
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A Parable About Community

by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Original poem by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
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J.L. Conrad: The World in Which

by J. L. Conrad

An interview with J. L. Conrad, 2024.
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G.C. Waldrep: The Opening Ritual

by G.C. Waldrep

Interview with G.C. Waldrep by Ann Hostetler, November 2024
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Fran Martens Friesen and Mary Ann Zehr: Doors Cracked Open

by Fran Martens Friesen and Mary Ann Zehr

Fran Martens Friesen and Mary Ann Zehr, Doors Cracked Open: Teaching in a Chinese Closed City. Wipf and Stock, 2024. 170 pages. $23 paper, $9.99 Kindle.
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Britt Kaufmann: Midlife Calculus

by Britt Kaufmann

Britt Kaufman, Midlife Calculus. Press 53, 2024. 83 pages. $17.95.
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Todd Davis: Ditch Memory

by Todd Davis

Todd Davis, Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems (Michigan State University Press, 2024)
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Daniel Shank Cruz: Ethics for Apocalyptic Times

by Daniel Shank Cruz

Cruz, Daniel Shank. Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024.
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Sofia Samatar: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain and Opacities

by Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar, The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain. Tordotcom, 2024. 93 pages. $13.95 paper, $4.95 Kindle.

Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life. SoftSkull, 2024. 192 pages. $15.95 paper, $10.95 Kindle.
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Katie Lehman: Emily Dickinson's Lexicon

by Katie Lehman

Katie Lehman, Emily Dickinson’s Lexicon. Dos Madres, 2023. 85 pages. $21.
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Daniel Born: The Essential Dale Suderman Reader

by Daniel Born

Daniel Born, editor, The Essential Dale Suderman Reader: Journals, Essays, Letters, Interpretations (Resource Publications, May 2024), 252 pages, $29.00 paperback.

NOTE: This interview begins with a few supplemental questions, asked by Jeff Gundy.