Evan Lavender-Smith

Evan Lavender-Smith, Assistant Professor

_{Department of English

205 Shanks Hall

181 Turner Street NW

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Mail: els@vt.edu

Web: el-s.net}

Evan Lavender-Smith is an assistant professor of creative writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. He is also Vice President of Virginia Tech’s Faculty Senate.

Lavender-Smith’s first book, From Old Notebooks, a cross-genre work combining elements of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and philosophy, was listed on “Readers’ Favorite Books from Independent Presses” at Huffington Post, “Your Favorite Poets’ Favorite Books of Poetry” at Flavorwire, and several best-of-the-year lists. His second book, Avatar, an unpunctuated monologue delivered by a character floating in outer space, was a Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Lavender-Smith’s stories and essays have been noted in Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Essays, adapted for stage and radio, and translated into several languages. His writing has been praised in national and international media outlets, including Bookforum, The Guardian, Harper’s, The Irish Times, The Times Literary Supplement, and Vice. A recent fellow at Vermont Studio Center and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, he has been invited to read and lecture at Brown University, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Columbia College, the University of Denver, Lake Forest College, Macalester College, and elsewhere.

As founding editor of Noemi Press and former editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol, Lavender-Smith has published and edited writing by Sherman Alexie, Frédéric Boyer, Éric Chevillard, Helen DeWitt, Rikki Ducornet, Michael Martone, Rick Moody, Antoine Volodine, and others. With Carmen Giménez Smith, he performed the first complete English translation of “Canto del macho anciano” [“The Old Man’s Song”], a 6,500-word poem by Pablo de Rokha, recipient of Chile’s National Literature Prize. Lavender-Smith is also an editorial advisor at The Minnesota Review and a contributing writer at HTMLGIANT.

He has served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, the Heinz Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. He was recently elected to the Creative Writing Studies Organization’s Board of Directors. At Virginia Tech, Lavender-Smith serves as Vice President of the Faculty Senate, as a member of the advisory board to the Studio 72 Living–Learning Community, as Co-Director of the Glossolalia Literary Festival, and as Secretary of Phi Beta Kappa’s Mu of Virginia Chapter.

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and New Mexico State University, Lavender-Smith lives with his two children in Blacksburg, 12.7 miles away from the gravesite of his great-great-great-great grandmother, Rosanna Caldwell, whose nephew, Addison, was the first student to enroll at Virginia Tech.

Principal Areas of Research Focus

Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Literary Modernism & Postmodernism
Narrative Theory
Literary Publishing

Education

M.F.A. in Creative Writing, New Mexico State University
B.A. in English, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Roles

Founding Editor, Noemi Press
President, Mu of Virginia Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa
Board of Directors, Creative Writing Studies Organization
Advisory Board, Puerto del Sol
Contributing Editor, HTMLGIANT
Creative Writing Advisor, The Minnesota Review
Member, University Council, Virginia Tech
CLAHS Officer, Faculty Senate Cabinet, Virginia Tech
University Faculty Senator, Virginia Tech
Advisory Board, Studio 72 Living–Learning Community, Virginia Tech
Co-Director, Glossolalia Literary Festival, Virginia Tech
ICAT Creativity + Innovation Engagement Group, Virginia Tech
CLAHS Bridge Experience Liaison, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech
Team Leader, Bridge Experience Pilot Department, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech
MFA Committee, English Department, Virginia Tech
Creative Writing Committee, English Department, Virginia Tech

Awards and Honors

New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest Finalist, 2021
Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction Longlist, 2021
Virginia Tech Experiential Learning Program, 2021
Virginia Tech Dean’s Faculty Fellowship, 2020
Virginia Tech Recognition of Teaching Excellence Honoree, 2020
Autumn House Fiction Prize Finalist, 2020
Autumn House Nonfiction Prize Finalist, 2020
Virginia Tech Academic Leaders Program, 2020
New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Finalist, 2020
Virginia Tech Pathways Delivery Grant, 2019
Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant, 2019
Elixir Press Fiction Award Semifinalist, 2019
BkMk Press G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize Finalist, 2018
Best American Essays 2018 Notable Essay, 2018
Virginia Tech Favorite Faculty Recognition, 2018
Robert C. Jones Award for Short Prose Finalist, 2018
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Fellowship, 2018
Virginia Tech New Faculty Mentoring Grant, 2018
Fence Modern Poets Series Semifinalist, 2017
Virginia Tech CLAHS Summer Stipend Grant, 2017
Elixir Press Fiction Award Semifinalist, 2017
BOA Short Fiction Prize Finalist, 2017
Creative Capital Award Finalist, 2015
Howard Foundation Fellowship Finalist, 2015
Flavorwire “Your Favorite Poets’ Favorite Books of Poetry,” 2013
Biblioklept “Favorite Books of 2013”
Small Press Distribution Bestseller, 2011
Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest Finalist, 2011
St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist, 2010
HTMLGIANT “List of Lists 2010”
Dzanc Books “Top Ten Small Press Books of 2010”
HTMLGIANT “Top Ten Small Press Books of 2010”
32 Poems “Favorite Books of 2010”
NewPages Noteworthy Book, 2010
Small Press Distribution Recommended Book, 2010
Small Press Distribution Bestseller, 2010
Fence Modern Poets Series Finalist, 2009
Hudson Prize Finalist, 2009
Chiasmus Press Novel Award Semifinalist, 2008
Glimmer Train Fiction Open Award, 2007
Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Finalist, 2007
Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest Finalist, 2006, 2007
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 Notable Read, 2006
Frank Waters Fiction Award, 2003
High Distinction in General Scholarship, UC Berkeley, 1999
High Departmental Honors, UC Berkeley, 1999
Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley, 1999

Publications

Books

From Old Notebooks. Dzanc Books, 2013.
Avatar. Six Gallery Press, 2011.

Recent Stories, Essays and Plays

“The Whole Process,” The Rupture (forthcoming 2021)
“An Appropriate Dream,” Fieldnotes [London], vol. 2, 2021, pp. 44–46.
“He Said He Didn’t Want Dog Shit on His Floor,” The Believer, Apr. 2021.
“Twelve Steps Ahead,” MAYDAY Magazine, Feb. 2021.
“Letters from Her Piano Teacher,” South Carolina Review , vol. 53, no. 1, 2020, pp. 39–62.
“The Volta,” Denver Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 19–21.
“A Vicious Cycle,” The White Review, May 2020.
“Sleep Study,” The Sun, Oct. 2019, pp. 40–44.
“Thirsty,” Sublunary Editions, no. 3, 2019, pp. 1–3.
“The Parting Sea,” We’ll Never Have Paris, ed. Andrew Gallix, Repeater Books [London, England], 2019, pp. 483–491.
“Real Talk (III),” Hotel Amerika, vol. 16, 2018, pp. 127–131.
“Event Horizon,” “Unfit,” and “Dreadful,” New York Tyrant, Dec. 2018.
“Two Unknowns,” Egress [London, England], no. 1, 2018, pp. 98–106.
“Le cose infantile” [“Childish Things”], trans. Mariana Calvaresi, Edizioni Black Coffee [Florence, Italy], Aug. 2018.
“Last Thing,” The Collagist, Mar. 2018.
“The Gay Science,” Fanzine, Jan. 2018.
“Pride and Joy,” “Week in the Life,” and “To Watch or Not: A Möbius Strip,” New York Tyrant, Dec. 2017.
“Debating a Second-Grader on the Merits of Wikipedia and the Etymology of ‘Ladybird,’” Literary Hub, Aug. 2017. [Originally published as “Post-its,” sub.]
“Post-its,” New England Review, vol. 38, no. 4, 2017, pp. 107–120.
“The Itch and the Touch,” Longreads, Oct. 2017.
“The Itch and the Touch,” The Southern Review, vol. 53, no. 4, 2017, 533–555.
“A Vicious Cycle,” The White Review Anthology. ed. Jacques Testard and Ben Eastham, Fitzcarraldo Editions [London, England], 2017, pp. 215–227.
“Language on Vacation,” Fanzine, Aug. 2017.
Utoajuda para a síndrome do ninho vazio [Self-Help for Empty-Nest Syndrome]. Directed by Ana Prado, Teatro Cemitério de Automóveis, 13 April 2017, São Paolo, Brazil. Performance.
“Ideia para um conto (macaco)” [“Short Story Idea (The Macaque)”], trans. Caetano Galindo, Piauí [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil], Feb. 2017, pp. 70–71.
“In the Middle,” The Offing, Nov. 2016.
“The Real Evan,” The Rumpus, Oct. 2016.
“The Truth About Death.” Numero Cinq Magazine, vol. 12, no. 8, 2016.
“How to Eat a Sunflower Seed,” Alpine NJ Magazine, Central Park West Magazine, Greenwich Country Capitalist, Hamptons Country Capitalist, International Edition, Litchfield Country Capitalist, Long Island Country Capitalist, Miami The Beach Magazine, New Canaan Country Capitalist, Rye Magazine, Soho NYC Magazine, The Upper East Side Magazine, Tribeca Magazine, Westchester Country Capitalist, Weston Magazine, Westport Country Capitalist, no. 60, 2017, p. 240.
“Dinner with Friends,” Juked, Aug. 2016.
“Childish Things,” Bennington Review, no. 2, 2016, pp. 3–5.
“A Bunt,” Hobart, Jul. 2015.
“For This Relief Much Thanks,” The Offing, Jun. 2015.
“The Cliff’s Edge,” Vestiges, no. 2, 2016, pp. 10–17.
“Unfit,” Heck Magazine, no. 1, 2016, pp. 84–89.
“Why I Write,” The Scofield, vol. 2, no. 1, 2016, pp. 154.
“Notice,” Harvard Review, Jun. 2016.
“Reading at the Dinner Table,” Quarter After Eight, vol. 22, 2016, pp. 116–119.
“How to Eat a Sunflower Seed,” Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon. Performance by Georgia Bellas, no. 94, Apr. 2016.
“How to Eat a Sunflower Seed,” Hobart, Apr. 2016.
“Brief Bio,” Fanzine, Mar. 2016.
“Unfit,” Heck Magazine, no. 1, 2016, pp. 84–89.
“The Signature of a Person,” “Last Words,” “Perennial Chocolate Eulogomania,” and “Vita (Nine Tries),” The Scofield, vol. 1, no. 1 (2015): pp. 104–105.
“Tell Your Mother,” The Toast, Jun. 2015.
“Father–Son Combos,” Hobart, Apr. 2015.
“Sunlight (Your Son’s), Fury (Yours), Shame (Mine) and Fatigue (the Additional Person’s),” Litro, Mar. 2015.
“Sticker Chart,” The Toast, Mar. 2015.
“Review of Franklin Sports Junior Equipment Bag (Black),” The Good Men Project, Mar. 2015.
“Short Story Idea (The Macaque),” BOMB, Jan. 2015.
“Grave Exhortations,” The Collagist, no. 66, Jan. 2015.
“Running on the Treadmill,” Drunken Boat, No. 22, 2015.
“Advice Vis-à-Vis (Look it Up) the Remainder,” Heavy Feather Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2015, pp. 14–17.
“Real Talk (XIX),” Arts & Letters, no. 30, 2015, pp. 11–13.

Recent Criticism, Interviews, and Translation

“Dancing Star: An Interview with Lars Iyer.” HTMLGIANT, Dec. 2020.
“Make it Formally Dynamic: An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith.” By William Hoffacker. The Collagist, Dec. 2018.
“Matthew Vollmer with Evan Lavender-Smith.” Interview by Evan Lavender-Smith. The Brooklyn Rail, Oct. 2018.
“A Writer’s Insight: Evan Lavender-Smith.” Interview by Garrett Hazelwood. The Southern Review, Oct. 2017.
“Encountering the Celebrity Male Gaze: Interview with Khadijah Queen.” By Evan Lavender-Smith. Literary Hub, Jun. 2017.
Review of Kingdom of the Sun by James Terry. Western American Literature, vol. 51, no. 4, 2017, pp. 482–483.
“Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith.” By Thea Wong. Bennington Review, Jan. 2017.
Review of Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama. HTMLGIANT, Jan. 2017.
Review of The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All by C.D. Wright. BOMB, Dec. 2016.
“Twenty-Eight Things I Wrote in the Margins of Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies.” HTMLGIANT, Nov. 2016.
“Sesquipedalian Eccentrics: Dylan Hicks with Evan Lavender‑Smith.” Interview by Evan Lavender-Smith. The Brooklyn Rail, Jul./Aug. 2016, pp. 4–6.
“Susan Daitch by Evan Lavender-Smith.” Interview by Evan Lavender-Smith. BOMB, Jul. 2016.
“Casey Gray: The Big-Box Novel.” Interview by Evan Lavender-Smith. Rain Taxi, vol. 21, no. 1, 2016, pp. 40–42.
Review of The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector. The Scofield, vol. 2, no. 1, 2016, pp. 12–13.
Review of Infinite Fictions by David Winters. Denver Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 4, 2016, pp. 97–106.
“Introduction to the C.D. Wright Tribute.” With Susan Briante and Carmen Giménez Smith. Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics, no. 62, 2016.
Review of Itch by Steven Seidenberg. Colorado Review, Jan. 2015.
“The Old Man’s Song” [“El canto del macho anciano”] by Pablo de Rokha, trans. Evan Lavender-Smith and Carmen Giménez Smith. Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America, ed. Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita, Copper Canyon Press, 2014, pp. 73–119.

Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Summer Research Honorarium, Virginia Tech, $500, 2021
Graduate Research Assistance Grant, English Department, Virginia Tech, $2,500, 2021
Graduate Research Assistance Grant, English Department, Virginia Tech, $5,000, 2021
Dean’s Faculty Fellowship for Research, College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, $5,000, 2020
Virginia Tech TLOS Community of Practice on Writing-Intensive Courses, $1,000, 2020
Virginia Tech Pathways Delivery Grant (with James Jewitt, Matthew Ebert, Susanna Rinehart, Matthew Ebert, Justin Perkinson, and John Irrera), $11,000, 2019
Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant, $500, 2019
Virginia Tech New Faculty Mentoring Grant, $1500, 2018
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Fellowship, $200, 2018
Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Summer Stipend Grant, $4000, 2017
Creative Capital Award, $80,000, Finalist (unfunded), 2015
Howard Foundation Fellowship, $35,000, Finalist (unfunded), 2015
New Mexico State University Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship, $1500, 2004

Judgeships and Juries

Creative Capital Award, 2021
Martha Price Hancock Scholarship in Human Resources, CLAHS, Virginia Tech, 2021
Albert Lee Sturm Award for Faculty Excellence in Research, 2020–2021
John D. Wilson / Phi Beta Kappa Essay Contest, 2017–2021
Scholastic Awards National Writing Grant, 2019, 2020
North Carolina Arts Council, 2019
Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Scholarship, 2018–2019
Creative Capital Award, 2018
FC2 Innovative Fiction Prize, 2017
Jacob von Kutzleben Memorial Scholarship Writing Contest, 2017
Baltic Writers Residency, 2017
National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Grant, 2016
Heinz Award Council of Nominators (period undisclosed)
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (period undisclosed)

Editorial Positions

Noemi Press, Founding Editor
Puerto del Sol, Advisory Board
The Minnesota Review, Creative Writing Advisor
HTMLGIANT, Contributing Editor
Heck Magazine, Contributing Editor
Puerto del Sol, Editor-in-Chief, 2015–2017
AWP Intro Journals Project, Contributing Editor, 2015–2017
The Volta, Guest Editor, 2016
Puerto del Sol, Senior Editor, 2012–2015
Puerto del Sol, Prose and Drama Editor, 2008–2012
Tusculum Review, Advisory Board, 2006–2009

Select Conference & Visiting Writer Engagements

Writers in Common Conference, Presenter, 2019
Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWO) Conference, Presenter, 2019
University of Denver, Visiting Writer, 2018
Lake Forest College, Visiting Writer, 2018
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Panel Moderator, 2017
Macalester College, Visiting Writer, 2017
University of Texas, El Paso, Visiting Writer, 2014
University of California, San Diego, Visiting Writer, 2013
Brown University, Visiting Writer, 2012
Columbia College, Visiting Writer, 2011

Courses Taught

Graduate Courses Taught

Fiction Workshop (ENGL 6704): Spring 2020, Spring 2018
Form and Theory of Fiction (ENGL 5734): Spring 2019
Editing a Literary Journal (ENGL 5774): Fall 2018, Fall 2021

Undergraduate Courses Taught

Advanced Fiction (ENGL4704): Fall 2021
Creative Writing: Fiction (ENGL 3704): Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Intersection of the Arts (ART 1124): Spring 2020
Topics in World Novels: After Beckett (ENGL 3694): Spring 2018
Introduction to Creative Writing (ENGL 2744): Fall 2017

Experiential Learning Opportunities for Undergraduates

Coordinators for the Glossolalia Literary Festival
Internships at Noemi Press

Work with Graduate Students

Florence Gonsalves, MFA (Fiction), Committee Chair, 2021–present
Kennedy Coyne, MFA (Fiction), Committee Chair, 2021–present
Nathan Dragon, MFA (Fiction), Committee Chair, 2021–present
Taylor Portela, MFA (Poetry), Thesis Committee Member, 2019–present
Blessing Christopher, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Chair, 2019–present
Kira Homsher, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Member, 2019–present
John Darcy, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Member, 2019–present
Annie Raab, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Member, 2019–2021
Dashiel Carrera, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Chair, 2019–2021
Evan Massey, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Chair, 2019–2021
Sarah Hansen, MFA (Poetry), Thesis Committee Member, 2019–2020
Uche Okwonko, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Member, 2017–2020
Gideon Simons, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Chair, 2017–2020
Tolu Adeyeye, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Chair, 2017–2020
Devon Keyes, MA (Literature), Thesis Committee Member, 2018–2019
Travis McDonald, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Member, 2017–2018
Patrick Siebel, MFA (Fiction), Thesis Committee Member, 2017–2018

Evan Lavender-Smith is currently accepting new graduate students.

International Engagement

Iyer, Lars. "Dancing Star: An Interview with Lars Iyer." Interview by Evan Lavender-Smith. HTMLGIANT, Dec. 2020.
Boyer, Frédéric. Cows. Trans. Joanna Howard and Nicholas Bredie, Noemi Press [ed. Evan Lavender-Smith], 2014.
Boyer, Frédéric. Cows. Trans. Joanna Howard and Nicholas Bredie, Puerto del Sol [ed. Evan Lavender-Smith], vol. 45, no.1, 2010, 28–31.
Chevillard, Éric. “From Prehistoric Times,” trans. Alyson Waters, Puerto del Sol [ed. Evan Lavender-Smith], vol. 47, no. 1, 2012, pp. 85–89.
Chevillard, Éric. “Faldoni,” trans. Brian Evenson, Puerto del Sol [ed. Evan Lavender-Smith], vol. 44, no. 2, 2009, pp. 7–19.
Drąg, Wojciech. “Collage Autothanatographies: David Markson's Reader's Block quartet and Evan Lavender-Smith's From Old Notebooks.” Orbis Litterarum, 2021.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “An Appropriate Dream,” Fieldnotes [London], vol. 2, 2021, pp. 44–46.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “A Vicious Cycle,” The White Review [London, England], May 2020.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “The Parting Sea,” We’ll Never Have Paris, ed. Andrew Gallix, Repeater Books [London, England], 2019, pp. 483–491.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “Le cose infantile,” trans. Mariana Calvaresi, Edizioni Black Coffee [Florence, Italy], Aug. 2018.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “Two Unknowns,” Egress [London, England], no. 1, 2018, pp. 98–106.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “A Vicious Cycle,” The White Review Anthology, Fitzcarraldo Editions, [London, England], ed. Jacques Testard and Ben Eastham, 2017, pp. 215–227.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. Utoajuda para a síndrome do ninho vazio [Self-Help for Empty-Nest Syndrome]. Directed by Ana Prado, Teatro Cemitério de Automóveis, 13 April 2017, São Paolo, Brazil. Performance.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “Ideia para um conto (macaco),” trans. Caetano Galindo. Piauí [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil], Feb. 2017, pp. 70–71.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “On The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector,” The Scofield, vol. 2, no. 1, 2016, pp. 12–13.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “A Vicious Cycle,” The White Review [London, England], no. 11, 2014, pp. 59–72.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “Speeds and Shapes of Consciousness.” Interview by David Winters. Gorse [Dublin, Ireland], no. 1, 2014, pp. 57-71.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “Jean-Luc Nancy's The Fall of Sleep: A Paraphrase,” Lit Pub, Feb. 2012.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “Služmeni katalog knjižnice potencijalne književnotsi” [“The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature”], trans. Katarina Peović Vuković et al., Libra Libera [Zagreb, Croatia], no. 30, 2012, p. 53.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “One Note: Evan Lavender-Smith Reads Éric Chevillard's The Crab Nebula,” Nailed Magazine, Mar. 2011.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. Review of Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 1: Plays; Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Fictions; and Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 3: Essays. Ed. Kenneth J. Northcott et. al. Colorado Review, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 182–86.
Lavender-Smith, Evan. “Minus Five: A Play in Six Scenes,” The Modern Review [Canada], vol. 2, no. 2, 2006, pp. 151–57.
Lavender-Smith, Evan, and Carmen Giménez Smith, trans. “El canto del macho anciano” [“The Old Man’s Song”] by Pablo de Rokha. Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America, ed. Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita, Copper Canyon Press, 2014, pp. 73–119.
Nelson, Maggie, and Evan Lavender-Smith. “The Fragment as a Unit of Prose Composition.” Interview by Ben Segal. Badiou, Alain, et al., Continent: Year 1, Punctum Books, 2012, pp. 151–169.
Nelson, Maggie, and Evan Lavender-Smith. “The Fragment as a Unit of Prose Composition.” Interview by Ben Segal. Continent, vol. 1, no. 3, 2011, pp. 158-170.
Pereira, Antonio Marcos. “Hibridações do romance no século XXI: O caso do romance-ensaio” [“Hybrid Novels in the 21^st Century: The Case of the Novel-Essay”], Contexto [Vitória, Brazil], no. 24, 2013, pp. 40–62.
Pereira, Antonio Marcos. “Romance-ensaio: Três Casos [Anéis de Saturno (Sebald, 1992), Diário de um ano rium (Coetzee, 2008), From old notebooks (Lavender-Smith, 2010)],” XII Congresso Internacional da ABRALIC, 20 Jul. 2011, Curitiba, Brazil. Conference Presentation.
Poniatowska, Elena. “The Farm,” trans. George Henson, Puerto del Sol [ed. Evan Lavender-Smith], vol. 45, no. 2, 2010, pp. 177–194.
Volodine, Antoine. “Schlumm (from Bardo or Not Bardo),” trans. Brian Evenson, Puerto del Sol [ed. Evan Lavender-Smith], vol. 45, no. 1, 2010, pp. 59–73.