Author Archives: Andrew Roe

Wigleaf, one of my favorite online lit journals, just released its annual list of the top 50 very short fictions of 2012. And I was very happy and honored to see that my story “Job History” (originally published in Moon … Continue reading →

INTERVIEWER Do you need complete isolation to write or is it more portable than that? MARTIN AMIS I can write in the midst of—not very conveniently—but I can make progress in the midst of the usual family clamor. But it … Continue reading →

Raymond Chandler takes on his copy editor (via Letters of Note).

These days, for me, there isn’t much of a choice. The answer to this question is: whenever I can. Mostly my writing happens in little snippets, here and there, an hour or two, three if I’m lucky. During the week … Continue reading →

That’s the last time I worked on my novel. Hopefully that will change today. It’s hard to dip back in after you haven’t done anything for a long stretch of time. You feel so far away. You feel like you’ve … Continue reading →