Interview Roundup: Pairing Off

My friends at Small Beer Press have been getting a lot of attention recently, most of it centered around the publication of Kelly Link's second short story collection, Magic for Beginners. Publishers Weekly did a story on Kelly and her partner, Gavin Grant, in last week's issue, and now their local paper, the Valley Advocate, profiles the duo and their affinity with "newer writers, people whose stories fit into neither Asimov's nor Tin House, but were still lovely and good." Of course, nowadays, with Kelly showing up in One Story, a Tin House appearance doesn't sound quite so implausible.

This next item isn't quite an author interview--if it had happened here, I would have called it an Author2Author--but Stephen King and John Irving got together recently to talk about writing, and Manchester Journal reporter Sarah M. Grant had the recorder running while she jumpstarted the conversation.