Roundtable + Reading

Over at Hobart, Jensen Beach put together a beast of a roundtable "first books" interview with Kyle Beachy, Jed Berry, Andrew Ervin, Roxane Gay, Rachel B. Glaser, Caitlin Horrocks, Holly Goddard Jones, Tom McAllister, Laura van den Berg, Kevin Wilson, and  Mike Young. Lots of interesting nuggets. Here's Mike saying a lot of stuff I agree with about reading and performance:

Performance has always felt like a natural outgrowth of writing to me. If my work is talking at imaginary faces, then...