Interviews October 22, 2019

Caleb Crain. Photo: Peter Terzian In Caleb Crain’s new novel, Overthrow, a thirty-one-year-old graduate student named Matthew meets a poet who recruits him to volunteer at Occupy Wall Street. The poet and his friends read tarot cards, and some of them even believe they can read minds: with a mixture of irony and earnestness, they refer to themselves as the Working Group for the Refinement of the Perception of Feelings. “It’s about admitting that most of the time people are more aware than they’d like to let on of how other people are feeling,” one character explains. “And that