Losing Your Entire Point of Gravity: An Interview with Ronit Plank
May 6, 2021
By Anita Gill Ronit Plank’s debut memoir When She Comes Back begins with the epigraph from Mallika Rao’s “Why I…
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Family Underwater: An Interview With Dawn Newton
May 4, 2021
By Christine Maul Rice A few summers ago, in the before times, I met Dawn Newton at the Interlochen Writers…
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Rockwellian: An Interview with Catherine Adel West
April 8, 2021
By Jael Montellano Before the pandemic, Catherine Adel West and I enjoyed a scrumptious dinner at The Allis Chicago. We…
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Excerpt: Lee Matthew Goldberg’s ORANGE CITY
March 24, 2021
At six on the dot, the gloved cellular let out a piercing ring. A timer turned on, ticking down with…
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One Question: Lee Matthew Goldberg
March 24, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City and Runaway Train, “As a thriller writer normally, what made you…
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The Calamities of Girlhood: An Interview with Donna Miscolta
March 3, 2021
By Rachel Swearingen One of the many things I admire about Donna Miscolta’s writing is the tension bubbling beneath her…
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An Essay About Essays by Megan Stielstra
March 2, 2021
Editor’s Note: Originally published in March 2014, this remains one of Hypertext’s most popular posts. Maddeningly, when we changed themes,…
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Excerpt: Sara Davis’s THE SCAPEGOAT
February 26, 2021
By Sara Davis When Kirstie interrupted me I was in the break room. I had just sat down at the…
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One Question: Sara Davis
February 26, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Sara Davis, author of The Scapegoat, “What was your favorite part of this book to write?” By Sara…
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Excerpt: Erica Buist’s THIS PARTY’S DEAD
February 18, 2021
I’m teetering on the roof edge of a concrete tomb. The air is filled with the smells of sweat and…
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One Question: Erica Buist
February 18, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Erica Buist, author of This Party’s Dead, “So you visited seven festivals for the dead and wrote a…
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Good, Wild Stock: An Interview with Laura Donnelly
February 12, 2021
By Rachel Swearingen Laura Donnelly’s second book of poetry, Midwest Gothic, is an eerie and fantastic meditation on childhood, on…
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Excerpt: Darrin Doyle’s THE BIG BABY CRIME SPREE AND OTHER DELUSIONS
February 5, 2021
I. The Pretty New Nurse From Pediatrics I’m standing behind my wife in the cafeteria line at St. Mary’s. Except…
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One Question: Darrin Doyle
February 5, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Darrin Doyle, author of The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions, “What exactly is a Big Baby…
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Excerpt: Marc Sheinbaum’s MEMORIES LIVE HERE
February 4, 2021
By Marc Sheinbaum PROLOGUE Josh Brodsky drove through the early morning mist, approaching the La Quinta Inn outside San Francisco…
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One Question: Marc Sheinbaum
February 4, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Marc Sheinbaum, author of Memories Live Here, “Beyond the mystery and potential uses of artificial intelligence, what are you…
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Excerpt: Christine Hume’s SATURATION PROJECT
January 1, 2021
From “Atalanta: An Anatomy” A decade ago, a search party found her after three long, hot summer days in northern…
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One Question: Christine Hume
January 1, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Christine Hume, author of The Saturation Project, “What do the three long essays in Saturation Project do together that…
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Pozole by Elly Rivera
December 20, 2020
You jolt awake, your eyes adjusting to the darkness and your breath easing into a slow, steady rhythm. You roll…
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A Sunday in Los Angeles by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
For Steven Amato After a long sickness, or months paused onthose last words of a friend’s before they were gone,…
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The last mile home by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
We are talking now of a summer night in Mainewhen I would be astonished for the last timehow the voices…
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To James Wright by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
I drive four states to visit the Martins Ferryyou gave me; the one I’ve always thought ofas a kind of…
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The Lantern by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
How to know there will only be a once, an only time;I stand in the little parking lot with the…
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House Keys by Laura Zera
December 20, 2020
Every couple of years for the last fifteen or so, I’ve pulled a single key from my desk drawer and…
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Houses on the Water by Bahiyyih El-Shabbaz
December 20, 2020
All of my school friends live on one exact same block. All five of them. They live in old, enormous…
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Solar Winds by Gwendolyn Paradice
December 20, 2020
This is what I don’t like about astronomy: what you see through the telescope is nothing like the photographs. Tonight, there…
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Last Christmas, 2019 by Katie Darby Mullins
December 20, 2020
Every year for the last five, I’ve played an international game that has steadily grown into a phenomenon online: Whamageddon.…
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Battle-Axe Day by Virginia Bell
December 20, 2020
The cat was watching me even before the phone rang. It startled us both. I had been on the floor,…
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Souvenirs From Manzanar by Miyako Pleines
December 20, 2020
My mother and I visited Manzanar in the summer. We raised our cameras to everything we saw. Our first stop was…
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Kitchens, Sinking by Theresa Doolittle
December 20, 2020
1. The kitchen is the heart of the home, and I remember the day my parents tore ours out. It…
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