Tina May Hall The Physics of Imaginary Objects $10.99 University of Pittsburgh Press Tina May Hall’s The Physics of Imaginary Objects (University of Pittsburgh Press), winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, is comprised of 15 eerie, memorable stories followed by an intriguing novella that mixes poetry and prose in a way that captures readers in a world of complexity and imagination. The Physics of Imaginary Objects melds ideas of life and death, nature and technology

Jamie Klingensmith: Many of your stories, such as “Checkmates” and “Good Times,” which appear in your collection Insurrections, explore the question of masculinity. Since Gazing Grain Press is an inclusive feminist press, how do you think this question of masculinity, or what it means to be a man, a son, or a father, relates to inclusive feminism? Rion Amilcar Scott: So many of the men in Insurrections suffer from their own mistaken assumptions about what masculinity is. For