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.
Infinite Constellations
A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days
Swimming With Dead Stars
A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation
Ascension
A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed relationship with nature
My Haunted Home
Meditations on the ways grief is felt and harvested — the funny, the sorrowful, the surreal, and the unmentionable
Benefit Street
A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination