The stories of award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones are brimming with heart, hurt, humor, and gallons and gallons of blood. Fiction Unbound contributor C.S. Peterson talks with Mr. Jones to talk about monsters, his newest novel, and why the dogs never survive.
Read moreA Clarion West Field Report
C.S. Peterson returns from the writer’s paradise of Clarion West and reflects on risk, roller coasters, and relationships.
Read morePersonal Narratives and the Eye of the Beholder: Julie Buffalohead at the Denver Art Museum
Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), Black Snake Memory, 2018. Oil paint on canvas; 60 x 84 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery.
Artist Julie Buffalohead creates narrative images layered with personal meaning, while she invites the viewer in, leaving of room for the mysterious.
Image: Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), A Little Medicine and Magic, 2018. Oil on canvas; 52 x 72 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery. Image courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery
Read moreYou Don't Just Lose Your Life: An Interview With Gabino Iglesias
Writer Gabino Iglesias’ new book Coyote Songs hit book stores this week. Check out this interview for ideas about writing, the horror of murder and living interstitially.
Read moreWe Can't Outrun Pain: Interview with Priya Sharma
Fiction Unbound’s Gemma Webster chats with UK writer Priya Sharma.
Read moreA Celebration of Carmen Maria Machado
Celebrating Carmen Maria Machado with a summer re-post of our review of Her Body and Other Parties
Read moreSouthern Gothic: Interviewing "The Past is Never" Author Tiffany Quay Tyson
An interview with Tiffany Quay Tyson.
Read moreUrsula K. Le Guin: A Retrospective
Ursula K. Le Guin. 21 October 1929 – 22 January 2018. Photo by Eileen Gunn.
Le Guin dreamed whole realities that forced us to reexamine assumptions we took for granted, and to see new ways forward.
Read moreA Clarion Field Report
An Unbound writer comes back from the Clarion SF/F Writers Workshop and into a dystopian moment.
Read moreAn Interview With Brenna Yovanoff
Brenna Yovanoff's Gothic monsters are full of teeth, and she is an author full of surprises.
Read more"Star Wars and the Power of Costume" at the Denver Art Museum
Queen Amidala, Throne Room Gown. Star WarsTM: The Phantom Menace. © & TM 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. Used under authorization.
"Luminous beings are we," says Yoda. Star Wars and the Power of Costume at the Denver Art Museum celebrates the creative process that brought to life a modern myth.
Read moreTime-Travelers, All of Us: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and the Suffering of the Tangible
Guest contributor Alexander Lumans looks at author Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 and how everything will be as it is now, just a little different in.
Read morePaolo Bacigalupi: Chilling Worlds of Warning
Paolo Bacigalupi, photo © JT Thomas Photography
Paolo Bacigalupi, the master of the dire sci-fi future, visits Fiction Unbound to talk about black-swan events, speculative fiction's power to contextualize the present, and what he has learned about his own creative process.
Read moreRevolt 1680/2180: Past as Prologue
"Revolt 1680/2180" is on view at the Denver Art Museum until May 1, 2016. Installation view of Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz, © Virgil Ortiz.
In "Revolt 1680/2180," an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, artist Virgil Ortiz explores a post-apocalyptic world informed by the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, where the future echoes the past.
Read moreABOVE US ONLY SKY: An Interview With Author Michele Young-Stone
Prudence Vilkas was born with wings in 1973 Nashville. The doctors said they were a birth defect and her wings were surgically removed leaving small scars on her shoulders. But the ghost of her wings remains and ties her to generations of winged women across the sea. Author Michele Young-Stone and CS Peterson sit down to talk about winged women, historic horror, transcendence and the craft of writing.
Read moreDisinterring the Buried Giant: More Thoughts on Ishiguro's Latest
"Shall we take a funny one?"
More speculations on The Buried Giant and its woolly layers, from your fearless adventurers at Fiction Unbound.
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