Tessa Yang’s debut collection of fiction, The Runaway Restaurant, was released last fall by 7.13 Books. Jen Michalski’s third collection of fiction, The Company of Strangers, was released this January by Braddock Avenue Books. In many ways, that is where the differences end.

Aaron Burch is many things: literary magazine founder, editor, publisher, teacher, all around literary Mister Peanutbutter, inventor of the “we’re open right now and will be responding in real time” method of taking submissions. Now he can add novelist to the impressive range of titles. I sat down with Aaron around a Google document to talk about most of those things, but mostly his new novel Year of the Buffalo.