UI Press
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Erika Morillo
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
"In this image-text memoir, I create an archive out of a myriad of sources: family photographs, images I’ve made, news clippings, videos, and conversations. "
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Sharon Wahl
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
"The book opens with stories of new love—crushes, first dates. There is a longer story tracing a relationship from beginning to end, followed by stories about breaking up and then starting over, finding just the right person to fall in love with again."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Shelly Mazzanoble
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
"As a parent, you can’t help but wonder if you’re doing it right, where you’re falling behind, is everyone having more fun than you, do these kids even like me??? I think that way as a parent and a Dungeon Master."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Marguerite Sheffer
Monday, November 11, 2024
"The stories are completely unlinked, and encompass a mix of genres: there’s horror, science fiction, historical fiction, and a ghost story or two, alongside quite a bit of flash fiction."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Aaron McCollough
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
"At some point around 2018, I spontaneously started writing pieces that I trusted in a way I hadn't for a long time."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Melody S. Gee
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
"Language acquisition is something I’ve thought about a great deal in my life—my parents learning English, my navigating English and Cantonese, and various language extinctions in my life."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Amy Frykholm
Monday, October 14, 2024
"I generally write for about three hours and then panic about the things on my to-do list."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Edward Ziff
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
"Our book is about the function of the brain. We argue that we live in a world that is chaotic and often unpredictable, and the book presents our thesis that the brain invents a simplified world to help us navigate this chaos and conduct our daily activities."
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Peter Mishler
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
"One morning, I got out of bed and looked out my window and saw a group of children dressed in full tactical gear."
5Q Interview: UI Press Author Lucas Mann
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
"The essays move around a lot in subject and form -- there are shorter, more lyric pieces, longer works of cultural criticism and literary journalism, some memoir work; one is about Brad Pitt eating on screen, another is about watching LeBron James's online dad content, another is about Andy Warhol's diaries"
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5Q Interview: UI Press Author Nina Lohman
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
"I believe that broken bodies tell broken stories. Or, they can, at least. Mine does."
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