Juliet Escoria Wants to Bring Back Fistfights

Juliet Escoria’s new collection of short stories, You Are the Snake, is a work of impulse, restraint, and catharsis. Like her 2019 novel, Juliet the Maniac, the writing in these 19 stories is meticulously raw, minimally descriptive, and sparsely elaborated. I talked with Escoria about tarot, fistfights, and the pitfalls of publishing.

Charlene Elsby: How did this book come together? As in, how did you ultimately impose order on this collection?

I really like moving things around in space. I’ve done that with all of my books. Ordering this