Ann K. Ryles recently interviewed award-winning short story writer Catherine Brady about her new collection, THE MECHANICS OF FALLING, just out from University of Nevada Press. Read the interview here. See Brady at the Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco on March 17 or at the Babylon Salon reading series on March 7. See a complete list of appearances here.

You don’t really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place. ~Catherine Brady