Selected features, interviews, and recorded events, mainly related to How to Walk on Water and Other Stories.
Live events and conversations are ongoing.
Features
Electric Lit’s Favorite Story Collections of 2020, Electric Literature.
“12 Must Read Books for Fall,” Chicago Tribune.
“New & Noteworthy” Books 10.27.20, New York Times Book Review.
Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020, Largehearted Boy.
“11 Books About Midwesterners Who Aren’t Trying to Be Nice” by Rachel Mans McKenny, Electric Literature.
Playlist and Notes on How to Walk on Water, Largehearted Boy Book Notes.
Review of How to Walk on Water by Donald G. Evans, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Blog.
Interviews
“Opening into the World,” with Tara Betts, NewCity
Q&A with Rachel Swearingen: How to Walk On Water, with Christine Sneed, ZYZZYVA
“Haunted Spaces,” with Edward Hamlin, Fiction Writers Review
Conversation with Christine Rice, Hypertext Magazine
Interview with Rachel Swearingen, with Scott Mashlan, Mayday Magazine
“Sweaty with Effort,” with Keith Leismeister, Life as a Shorty
Recordings / Podcasts
“Advice for the Haunted” Video Reading, Exhibit B Performance Series, The Guild Literary Complex.
Some Like It Short: Story Writers Read and Celebrate Short Story Month, with Patricia Ann McNair, Alex Poppe, and Kate Wisel, Chicago Public Library
Wisconsin Wednesdays, Reading and Conversation with James Crews, Chekwube Danlade, and Angela Voras-Hills, Wisconsin Book Festival and Madison Public Library
“Art Beat: How to Walk on Water,” WMUK Radio interview with Zinta Aistars.
Conversation with Pam Houston, Readings by Writers, Writings by Writers
Conversation with Angela Ajayi, Magers & Quinn Booksellers
Episode 4: Discussion about How to Walk on Water, Store Next Door with Doug Cooper Podcast
Episode 269: Interview and reading of “Boys on a Veranda,” Other Stories (by Ilana Masad) Podcast. (Available through Apple Podcasts)
Reading with Donna Miscolta, author of Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, Elliot Bay Bookcafe
Discussion of “Advice for the Haunted” with Kelly Fordon, Let’s Deconstruct a Story