Interviews with Gene Ambaum and Corban Addison: Volume VII, Issue 3: Fall 2015

by Anna Faktorovich

This issue of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal includes an interview with Gene Ambaum, one of the creators of the popular Unshelved cartoon about a library. The second featured interview is with Corban Addison, the author of three international bestselling novels, A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, and The Tears of Dark Water. There is also the largest selection of extensive book reviews to appear in PLJ to-date with starred reviews in all genres, in fiction and non-fiction, and from both high and low-brow literature. The essays section includes Keith Moser’s exploration of the post-Marxist philosophy of Jean Baudrillard and Michel Serres, and Marco R. S. Post’s study of monologue and dialogue in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. You will also find varied short stories (comedies, absurdities, tragedies, and mysteries) from J. T. Townley, Tommy Partl, Rachel Veroff and Thomas Elson, and new poetry from re-appearing authors, Howard Winn and Louis Gallo.

214 pages, Paperback

Published December 10, 2015

About the author

Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She taught college English at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism. She published two academic books with McFarland: "Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson" (2013) and "The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels" (2014). Her British Renaissance Re-Attribution and Modernization Series, https://anaphoraliterary.com/attribution changes world-history. She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009. And she started the second Anaphora periodical, Cinematic Codes Review, in 2016. She has presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other conferences. She won the MLA Bibliography, Kentucky Historical Society and Brown University Military Collection fellowships.