This week we visit with Isa Arsén in San Antonio, Texas.
Isa Arsén is a certified bleeding heart based in South Texas, where she lives with her spouse and a comically small dog.
Her work has been featured in Stone of Madness Press, The McNeese Review, and several independent anthologies and audiovisual projects. Her novels include SHOOT THE MOON (Putnam, 2023), and THE UNBECOMING OF MARGARET WOLF (Putnam, 2025). When not wrangling prose, Isa is a dialogue engineer & writer for interactive media.
For more on Isa: inarsen.com
Isa's Books on the Bed:
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson
The Ring of the Nibelung by P. Craig Russell
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
The Study of Counterpoint: from Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum (translated and edited) by Alfred Mann
The Art of Writing Nonfiction by Andre Fontaine and William A. Glavin, Jr.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Matt's Gifts for Isa:
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Lolly Willowes : or the loving huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Moon Child (album) by Kelley Smith
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