DEPARTMENTS

{Sep 4, 2020}

So here’s the thing you should know about interviewing Frank Reardon. No bullshit. No flinching. No wincing. Much like the stories he writes, he doesn’t spin. Anything. He doesn’t shy away or go looking for attention. He doesn’t dress up his life to make it feel like anything other than it is same way he… more

Soundtrack Your Apocalypse, Soundtrack Your Life: An Interview with Honus Honus of Man Man

BULL Interview by Ryan W. Bradley

{Aug 28, 2020}

You can tell where some bands are from by their sound. Other bands sound like tears in the fabric of reality. Man Man is the latter. If you were to guess where they are from based on the sound of their music you might think they sprang into existence in a secret bunker below a… more

CATFISH MCDARIS

BULL Interview by Guinotte Wise

{Jul 31, 2020}

I worked 97 days in a row, 12 hours at a time. We had shoot outs, murders, anthrax and ricin scares. When they captured Dahmer, we got at least four or five bomb scares a week—folks wanted to mail him an explosive package. I made it, and that’s plenty.… more

Wesley Browne

BULL Interview by Sheldon Lee Compton

{Mar 16, 2020}

I deal with people in awkward situations, crisis situations, bad situations of their own making, all the time, so I’ve learned a lot about human nature. I’ve also learned a lot about the way people lead their lives when they hope nobody’s looking. I represent people who break the law. They tell me about it because it’s privileged.… more

MEAGAN LUCAS

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Feb 14, 2020}

What am I looking for as an editor? The short answer—something I wish to God I’d written, something that keeps me up at night. The long—on the first page, I want stakes, tension, and a character that I care enough about to keep reading. By the end, I want to feel something, and I want to not be able to stop thinking about it. … more

CATHY ULRICH

{Jan 15, 2020}

I don’t want anyone in my stories to be a joke or a punchline—that wouldn’t be fair to the person they are. I wrote some of these stories when I was very angry…, but if I wrote my anger into the story, it would be just a rant or a diatribe. And that’s not what I want at all. I want real people, doing the best they can. For me, that’s really the heart of all writing, whether it be fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction.… more

George Singleton

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Apr 8, 2019}

One time I had a woman say to me, “Don’t you just love Nicholas Sparks?” I said, “He might be one of the worst writers in the English language.” She said, “But he’s a millionaire!” I said, “People in America spend a lot more money on baloney than they do filet mignon. That doesn’t make baloney good for them.”… more

Hosho McCreesh

{Jan 28, 2019}

I knew he had to be challenging. I knew he had to be his own biggest problem. I knew he had to be the hero and the villain of his life… I just didn’t know why. I knew I wanted to write a book about America, but I knew I didn’t want to write a sermon from a pulpit.… more

Brian Alan Ellis

{Dec 17, 2018}

I want to matter. I want to make a name for myself. I want revenge on people who have abandoned/rejected me in the past. I want to be a big shot, like someone I look up to or have looked up to. I want to transcend my reality of just being another nameless, faceless person who gets up and just goes to work.… more

Tom Pitts

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Nov 8, 2018}

Throw out everything you know about crime fiction. Tom Pitts, author of Hustle and American Static, returns with a plot stickier than an ounce of Humboldt County’s finest. 101 is typical Tom Pitts, the kind of novel that proves he’ll forever and ever have followers, trailing behind him begging for one more hit. —Eryk Pruitt, author of What We Reckon… more

Do It With Grace: An Interview with Portugal. The Man

BULL Interview by Ryan W. Bradley

{Oct 1, 2018}

Since 2006, Portugal. The Man has been making fearlessly evolving rock and roll. Each of their eight studio albums have shown passion, experimentation, and growth in equal measure. The four year gap between 2013’s Evil Friends and 2017’s breakout, Woodstock saw the band record a massive amount of material before scrapping an album they had… more

CATEGORY ARCHIVES: BULLSHOT INTERVIEW

BULLshot: Kyle Bilinski

{April 1, 2015}

“I wanted readers to stumble into stewarding the same way I did… MORE

BULLshot: Ryan Lutz

{March 25, 2015}

“Personally, I don’t think there are people who are entirely good or evil—the situational forces that we are born into play a much bigger role than people think… MORE

BULLshot: Connor Ferguson

{March 18, 2015}

“… when you finally get a chance to use something in your writing, you can stop carrying it around with you… MORE

BULLshot: Alan Guzzetti

{March 11, 2015}

“I take no responsibility for characters who appear as evil, immoral, and depraved… MORE

BULLshot: Pete Stevens

{March 4, 2015}

“… in those actions, I relived the memory and kept it fresh… MORE

BULLshot: Matt Briggs

{February 25, 2015}

“My personal beliefs, however, are not nearly that consistent. But, my eyes are always brown… MORE

BULLshot: Travis M. Kiger

{February 15, 2015}

“When any one of them is holding court, people are afraid to take a piss because they might miss something… MORE

BULLshot: Barrett Hathcock

{February 11, 2015}

“for my own personal nonfictional work, I am committed to being almost completely useless… MORE

BULLshot: Christopher Evans

{January 28, 2015}

“No matter how complicated or contrary or cringe-worthy those facts might be, no one can tell you that you didn’t feel them… MORE

BULLshot: John Crawford

{January 21, 2015}

“You can’t bullshit a man like that. … MORE

BULLshot: John Thorton Williams

{January 14, 2015}

“Male relationships in art, though, make for an entirely different discussion. … MORE

BULLshot: Corey Mertes

{January 7, 2015}

“No stiff upper lip inhibits the leopard or the crocodile.… MORE

BULLshot: Dean Marshall Tuck

{December 31, 2014}

“If the average New Year’s Eve is a lot of build up for nothing, then Y2K had to be 10X nothing… MORE

BULLshot: Christopher Sicilliano

{December 24, 2014}

“He admits their house is infested with vermin. All signs point to an inevitable conclusion, and not a good one… MORE

BULLshot: McKenzie Hightower

{December 17, 2014}

“Life is a dark repetitive journey, one that is only punctured by sparks of happiness that bind us to what little we already have even tighter. … MORE

BULLshot: Ian Hilgendorf

{December 10, 2014}

“I think at one point or another almost everyone loves someone they shouldn’t… MORE

BULLshot: John Duncan Talbird

{December 3, 2014}

“But there’s always hope. Otherwise, every alcoholic would give birth to drunks, every abuser bring up future abusers.… MORE

BULLshot: Paul Vega

{November 26, 2014}

“no matter how “noble” his method of fishing, he is still killing… MORE

BULLshot: Casey Pycior

{November 19, 2014}

“It’s like a person isn’t allowed to make a mistake any more, at least not publicly… MORE

BULLshot: Jimmy J. Pack Jr.

{November 12, 2014}

“It’s more of a subtle torture… MORE

BULLshot: Dan Corfield

{November 5, 2014}

“Why believe in a god who wants certain people to be drunks?… MORE

BULLshot: Tim Dicks

{October 29, 2014}

“I wake in the dead quiet of night to find I am inhabiting my body in a way I usually don’t and thinking about large questions”… MORE

BULLshot: Gary Percesepe

One-Question Interview by Jarrett Haley

{October 22, 2014}

The author of this week’s “Wingman” thinks back on jobs he’s loved and lost… MORE

BULLshot: Michael Hemmingson

{October 15, 2014}

“When a person becomes a witness…of a violent crime, their lives are never the same”… MORE

BULLshot: Chris Tusa

{October 8, 2014}

The author of “Scrabble” on first lines… MORE

BULLshot: Anthony Malone