FC2 in Conversation With JoAnna Novak
Fiction Collective Two had the chance to talk with the author of one of this fall’s upcoming FC2 novels! Please find our conversation with JoAnna Novak about her book “Meaningful Work” below
FC2 in Conversation With Yannick Murphy
Fiction Collective Two had the chance to talk with the author of one of this fall’s upcoming FC2 novels! Please find our conversation with Yannick Murphy about her book “By The Time You Read This” below.
Making Fiction Making Trouble
Finding horrific and complicated humanity inside of a simple stare down between a rat and an exterminator, philosophical treatises, even cracking open the words themselves and experimenting with the implications of their order.
Sara Greenslit Interview
I wanted to write a story about migration and where we come from. When I look at my own family who came over on the Mayflower from England, I see how they got entangled in the Salem Witch Trials. And I come from a place of complication that resulted from those trials. I was trying to find a way to write about three modes of time at once and I came across some music by the Chinese composer Tan Dun.
Fiction Correctives: Amelia Gray
FC2 was the kind of press I’d save my cash for at writers’ conference book sales. Or if I didn’t have any cash, I’d spend hours browsing the catalog online. Between FC2 and Dalkey Archive, I have spent all my imaginary dollars.
Fiction Correctives: Kit Reed
I’d read about FC2 for a long time, which meant that when I joined the board of National Book Critics Circle in the ’90s I was excited to meet Ron Sukenick who, I decided, looked a bit like John Updike, the big difference being that Ron was a warm, immediate, generous and — do I dare say lovable? — person.
The Town of Whispering Dolls
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war
The Book of Kane and Margaret
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona
Meaningful Work
A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction
By the Time You Read This
A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation
Messiahs
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice