FC2 in Conversation With JoAnna Novak
Fiction Collective Two had the pleasure of talking with one of our upcoming Fall authors! Find our conversation with JoAnna Novak about her book Meaningful Work below, and find out more about JoAnna here.
FC2 in Conversation With Yannick Murphy
Fiction Collective Two had the chance to sit down with Yannick Murphy, author of the upcoming FC2 book By The Time You Read This! Find our conversation below, and find out more about Yannick here.
Making Fiction Making Trouble
Finding horrific and complicated humanity inside of a simple stare down between a rat and an exterminator, philosophical treatises, even cracking open the words themselves and experimenting with the implications of their order.
Sara Greenslit Interview
I wanted to write a story about migration and where we come from. When I look at my own family who came over on the Mayflower from England, I see how they got entangled in the Salem Witch Trials. And I come from a place of complication that resulted from those trials. I was trying to find a way to write about three modes of time at once and I came across some music by the Chinese composer Tan Dun.
Fiction Correctives: Amelia Gray
FC2 was the kind of press I’d save my cash for at writers’ conference book sales. Or if I didn’t have any cash, I’d spend hours browsing the catalog online. Between FC2 and Dalkey Archive, I have spent all my imaginary dollars.
Fiction Correctives: Kit Reed
I’d read about FC2 for a long time, which meant that when I joined the board of National Book Critics Circle in the ’90s I was excited to meet Ron Sukenick who, I decided, looked a bit like John Updike, the big difference being that Ron was a warm, immediate, generous and — do I dare say lovable? — person.
Ways to Disappear
Stories that excavate the unexamined places between dread and desire, promise and threat, where the body is both prison and salvation
There Is Only One Ghost in the World
The fragmented meditations of a multilayered voice, an intimate witness to our times that delicately and bluntly reveals the best and the worst in all of us
School
Both an exorcism of contemporary academia and a comedic portrait of an artist seeking the means to survive
Infinite Constellations
A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging
As if Fire Could Hide Us
A love song in three movements
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days