Interviews, Readings, Reviews & Other Publications
Interviews
August 18, 2020. Roell Schmidt, Director of Stage, University of Chicago, interviews Maggie. Video by Matthew Hickey.
January 12, 2010. Dance critic Lucia Mauro interviews Maggie on WBEZ and reviews The Crack Between the Worlds. Maggie reads from the book.
January 21, 2017. Shelagh Shapiro interviews Maggie about her novel, A Free Unsullied Land, on her podcast, writethebook.
June 2, 2020. “To Go Beyond.” Sharon Solwitz interviews Maggie Kast about Side by Side but Never Face to Face. Fiction Writers Review at https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/to-go-beyond-an-interview-with-maggie-kast/
January 26, 2021. Jan Leary interviews Maggie Kast in Another Chicago Magazine at https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/?s=Jan+Leary+i
Readings
May, 2015. Hear and see Maggie read an essay about making fudge and an excerpt from A Free, Unsullied Land at Tuesday Funk, Chicago
Reviews
November, 2020. Review of Side by Side but Never Face to Face by Elizabeth Boyle in Colorado Review.
March 16, 2020. Review of Side by Side but Never Face to Face and Interview with Maggie Kast in Book Pleasures by Norm Goldman
May 8, 2020. Review of Side by Side but Never Face to Face in Midwest Book Review by Jean Donovan.
Review by Review by Miriam Downey in The Cyber-Librarian.
Podcast interview of Maggie on New Books in Literature by G.P. Gottlieb.
February 23, 2010. Review of The Crack Between the Worlds in Christian Century by Neil Ellis Orts
The Crack Between the Worlds in ImageUpdate’s Top Ten 2009, a list of artworks in various genres plus a review.
June 1, 2020. Interview of Maggie Kast by Sharon Solwitz, author of Once, in Lourdes in Fiction Writers Review.
June 2, 2020. “Nine Ways to Support Your Favorite Authors,” by Rachel Hagerman of Superstition Review. Includes video of three authors, including Maggie, describing their books. To skip to the authors, start at 3’15”.
June 5, 2020. Q & A with Deborah Kalb Books.
Other Publications
February 2013. Essay on Symbols: Forest of Ambiguity in Numero Cinq, Douglas Glover’s online multi-faceted magazine, “a warm place on a cruel web.”
November 19, 2015. “Mind the Gap: Narrative Distance in J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man” in Fiction Writers Review
May, 2016 “Song of Cities,” a complex fairy tale (Pushcart nominated) on defenestrationism.net
“Undead Darlings,” a riff on cooking deleted from A Free Unsullied Land.
“Stories We Love,” an essay on William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow in Fiction Writers Review
August 2017 “Getting Away with It,” on the Tikkun Daily Blog, an essay on McCarthy and Trump
July 16, 2018. “‘Brodsky/Baryshnikov’: the language of exile, friendship, and time” in ACM/Another Chicago Magazine. Mikhail Baryshnikov dances poems by Joseph Brodsky. Review of the performance by Maggie
Spring 2017.”The House Will Burn.” Essay on Walkabout Theater Company’s “The Core of the Pudel,” in Superstition Review.
2018. Anthologized in the Orison Anthology of Spiritual Writing Volume 3, from Orison Books.
2021. “Flesh and Blood Ideas in J. S. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello” in CRAFT at https://www.craftliterary.com/2021/08/03/flesh-blood-ideas-coetzees-elizabeth-costello/
