Michael Carroll Archives

March 22, 2017 10 min read

“In these troubled times, The New Engagement fills a void in the literary world with compassion and understanding, and most of all, with beautiful art.” Read More

Paul Lisicky: On His New Memoir and Writing Elegies for the Dead

Michael Carroll

Features Interviews

January 7, 2016 14 min read

"Iʼm not sure that we as writers actually owe our dead anything other than to make them interesting—not necessarily friendly or nice but interesting." Read More

Michael Carroll: On His New Short Story Collection, the Benefits of a Spare Writing Style, and His Literary Inspirations

Frank Pizzoli

Features Interviews

July 2, 2014 3 min read

"I'm also not big on motive. I write one sentence at a time, then the next, and allow my creative juices to flow, take the story where it goes. I never have an ending in mind. That happens as I write." Read More

‘Playing by the Book’ by S. Chris Shirley

Michael Carroll

Reviews Young Adult

June 13, 2014 3 min read

Seventeen-year-old high school student Jake Powell is spending the summer at the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism. He’s the son...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

The Queerness of Robots

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

A Look at ‘The New Engagement’: A Dynamic New Literary Journal

Paul Lisicky: On His New Memoir and Writing Elegies for the Dead

Michael Carroll: On His New Short Story Collection, the Benefits of a Spare Writing Style, and His Literary Inspirations

‘Playing by the Book’ by S. Chris Shirley

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta