“And the crushing of these hopes and dreams is what Sabyn Javeri leverages with incredible skill.” Casey Harding reviews ‘Nobody Killed Her’, by Sabyn Javeri.
“The taxi that takes me to the station so early in the morning doesn’t have any headlights, any meter, not even a floor in some places.” Story of the Week (December 11), by Nafissatou Dia. Translated from the French by Sébastien Doubinsky and Casey Harding.
“I wanted to examine the people on the fringes of society, and how others’ perception of them led them there. Society can be unforgiving.” Lorna Brown, our April Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
“Quite frankly, there are times when I hear or play a good piece of music or sing a song and wish I could write a story as good as the music.” Nnamdi Oguike, our March Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
“The first book I ever read was Alice in Wonderland, and the surreal has taken captive of my imagination ever since…” Eliot Hudson, our February Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
“…as a writer, one should never be bound by the constraints of gender, age, race, religion, economic background, or social status when telling a story.” Nadia Kabir Barb, our January Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
The Missing Slate’s fiction editors reveal their process, works of fiction that haunt them, and their editing vice of choice in our Meet the Editors series.
“My country is turning into a police state and nobody cares, people just continue with their Christmas shopping…” Michal Hvorecký, our Author of the Month for November, talks to Casey Harding.
The Missing Slate’s 2015 round up of the books that helped define our year.
“The book that pushed me most into writing was Hamish Brown’s Scottish mountaineering work Hamish’s Mountain Walk, which excited me with the way the author linked bashing about in the hills, reading, and writing into an indivisible unity.” David McVey, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for September, talks to Casey Harding.