Author: robinmmccrary

Today marks the release of Issue 5 of New Mexico Review, which contains my essay "Hair." You can read the issue, with all its bright poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, here!

My essay “Island in the City” is forthcoming in The Swamp Literary Magazine. Feel free to check out their most current issue here!

“My Story Doesn't Begin When I Was Born,” my interview with José Orduña, author of The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement, appears today at the Los Angeles Review of Books. You can read our interview here.

My essay “An Idea of Prague” is now available to read here, in the Fall/Winter 2016 issue of South 85 Journal.

Midwestern Gothic has been kind enough to run some short interviews with its Issue 23 authors. You can read our interview here, as well as those of other contributors.

  Issue 23 of Midwestern Gothic is now available! I'm happy to have my essay "Two Cities" featured in the all-nonfiction (and final quarterly) issue, which also contains "The Sediment of Fear" by Toni Nealie. Feel free to check out the issue, which is available in both paperback and eBook (Kindle, iPad, Nook, and PDF) … Continue reading Midwestern Gothic Issue 23

I have a critical essay on the Montaignan tradition, “Of Bedrock: Reading Michel de Montaigne's 'Of Practice,'” appearing this week at Essay Daily. Many, many thanks to Ander Monson and Will Slattery for bringing the piece to life.

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, author Patrick Madden and I talk about his newest book, Sublime Physick—and, of course, about loving essays.

My essay “Summer of Léon,” about my experience living in France, appears today at Entropy. I send much gratitude to senior editor Erin Wisti for her consideration of my work.

My essay, “Two Cities,” will appear this fall in the next all-nonfiction issue of Midwestern Gothic, Issue 23. Much gratitude goes out to editors Jeff Pfaller and Robert James Russell for choosing to run my work in their magazine.