Author Archives: Andrew Roe

The latest issue of the super-fantastic SmokeLong Quarterly is now live, and it includes my story “Stalling.” There’s also an interview. Lots of great folks in this issue (as usual), including: James Tadd Adcox, Grant Bailie, Martin Cloutier, Emily Darrell, … Continue reading →

“…I’d hide out in the basement of Elliott Bay or in the top floor of the Athenian and in my sporadic blue notebooks track a reading list — Joyce, Pound, Eliot, et al. — that was really little more than … Continue reading →

I remember reading this thing by Charles D’Ambrosio a few years ago. (Thanks to Katherine Taylor, who’s guest blogging at The Elegant Variation, for resurrecting it.) There’s a lot that I like about D’Ambrosio — mostly his writing, which I’m … Continue reading →

The New Yorker‘s Deborah Treisman on editing David Foster Wallace: “David was wonderful to edit because he was so involved with the minutiae of his work—he had a long explanation for every decision that he’d made, and yet, at the … Continue reading →