This is us: Steve Almond’s ‘Bad Stories’
Originally published 3/21 on southflorida.com » As a longtime fiction writer, creative-writing teacher, advice columnist, essayist and former journalist (in Miami, among other places), Steve Almond knows a bad story when he sees it. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Almond saw bad stories everywhere he looked. Since the election, these stories have only […]
Steve Almond: “The Hippies Were Fucking Right”
Originally posted on The Portland Mercury on 2/2018 The Bad Stories Author Reckons with the American Myths That Got Trump Elected Steve Almond’s family takes politics seriously. His mother attended socialist summer camps; his father was arrested for protesting the Vietnam War. “They believed in a better, more compassionate, more egalitarian way of living, […]
Stranger Than Fiction
Originally published on The Baffler, 3/2018 What it’s like to write a novel about the Trump candidacy five years before it existed BACK IN 2010, WHEN THE TEA PARTY was all the rage, I started writing a novel about a right-wing demagogue named Bucky Dunn who decides to run for president and shocks everyone by […]
Donald Trump And The Tabloid Trap
Originally posted 3/2018 at wbur.org Last week, Vanessa Haydon Trump, the wife of Donald Trump Jr., filed for divorce. This news was greeted by a predictable spasm of schadenfreude from Twitter folk. Josh Gondelman ✔@joshgondelman Look it’s not that I think divorce is funny. I just want Donald Trump Jr. to never be happy, and this […]
20 Questions: Steve Almond
Originally published on Pop Matters 4/10 Steve Almond is the author of the short story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction books Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked). His most recent book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, which comes with a ‘Bitchin soundtrack’ (that […]
AN INTERVIEW WITH STEVE ALMOND
Originally published 8/2003 at Bookslut Steve Almond’s short story collection My Life in Heavy Metal has provoked strong reactions in reviewers. Many were put off by the strong sexual content of the stories. One insisted in her review that the female ejaculation described in the first story was anatomically impossible. For his next book, Almond delves into […]