Photograph by Ryoji Iwata
Our interview with Dana Heifetz is part of SmokeLong‘s Global Flash Series. A very special thank-you goes out to Ilana Masad for editing and translating not one but two stories in Hebrew for our readers.
To maintain the integrity of the Hebrew text, we have chosen to display the Hebrew interview (and of course also the English interview) as a pdf. Simply click on the links below:
Smoke and Mirrors_An Interview with Dana Heifetz_Hebrew
Smoke and Mirrors_An Interview with Dana Heifetz_English
Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American fiction writer and book critic. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Tin House’s Open Bar, Printer’s Row, Joyland Magazine, Vice, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and more. She is the founder and host of The Other Stories, a podcast featuring fiction writers, and can be found tweeting too much @ilanaslightly.
Find more of Ryoji Iwata‘s photography on Unsplash.
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