Charles Salzberg

interviewed by Derek Alger

Originally published on July 31, 2009

“…I’d written an article about street gambling, 3-card monte, and an agent asked me to write a novel based on it. I didn’t really want to, but when she said I could make several thousand dollars, which was a lot of money then, I said yes. I think I wrote it in a month…It was called Street Gambler, and fortunately, I probably have the only copies left.”

SNOW WHITE REDUX

by Grace Bauer

Originally published on July 14, 2009

The mirror has always been merciless- a wicked stepmother glaring her reflection back at her, snarling: no fair, no fair. And that means something. Gets her story headed off in a direction that is difficult to revise. It requires her, too often, to eat her own words, compose a smile to camouflage the envy she [...]