Features
Electric Lit’s Favorite Story Collections of 2020, Electric Literature.
Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020, Largehearted Boy.
“11 Books About Midwesterners Who Aren’t Trying to Be Nice” by Rachel Mans McKenny, Electric Literature.
“New & Noteworthy” Books 10.27.20, New York Times Book Review.
“12 Must Read Books for Fall,” Chicago Tribune.
Playlist and Notes on How to Walk on Water, Largehearted Boy Book Notes.
Review of How to Walk on Water by Donald G. Evans, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Blog.
Interviews
Interview with Rachel Swearingen, with Scott Mashlan, Mayday Magazine
“Sweaty with Effort,” with Keith Leismeister, Life as a Shorty
“Opening into the World,” with Tara Betts, NewCity
Q&A, with Christine Sneed, ZYZZYVA
“Haunted Spaces,” with Edward Hamlin, Fiction Writers Review
Conversation with Christine Rice, Hypertext Magazine
Recordings / Podcasts
“Advice for the Haunted” Video Reading, Exhibit B Performance Series, The Guild Literary Complex. (May 20, 2021)
Some Like It Short: Story Writers Read and Celebrate Short Story Month, with Patricia Ann McNair, Alex Poppe, and Kate Wisel, Chicago Public Library (May 12, 2021)
Wisconsin Wednesdays, Reading and Conversation with James Crews, Chekwube Danlade, and Angela Voras-Hills, Wisconsin Book Festival and Madison Public Library (March 3, 2021)
Conversation with Pam Houston, Readings by Writers, Writings by Writers (January 28, 2021)
Reading with Angela Ajayi, Magers & Quinn Booksellers (January 7, 2021)
Episode 4: Discussion about How to Walk on Water, Store Next Door with Doug Cooper Podcast
Reading with Donna Miscolta, author of Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, Elliot Bay Bookcafe (Dec. 8, 2020)
Episode 269: Interview and reading of “Boys on a Veranda,” Other Stories Podcast
Discussion of “Advice for the Haunted” with Kelly Fordon, Let’s Deconstruct a Story
Facebook Live Reading with Jeremy T. Wilson, Volumes Bookcafe
Reading with Lainey Cameron, Mary Helen Sheriff, Tonya Mitchell, and Eddy Boudel Tan, 2020 Debuts Five Minute Reads
“Art Beat: How to Walk on Water,” WMUK Radio interview with Zinta Aistars.
Excerpts
“For Sale: Spacious 2BDR, Great Views, Ornery Ghost,” with an introduction by Caitlin Horrocks in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.
Excerpt from “The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves,” Mayday.
“Boys on a Veranda,” Literary Hub.
“Advice for the Haunted” (Ten-minute Excerpt) for Exhibit B Reading Series, May 2021.