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The Perils of Prosthetic Memory : A Conversation with Aiden Arata
I just think that the way that we consume language on the internet has to be super utilitarian because our attention spans are being ripped to shreds at any given time. For me, prose and writing a book that I…
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Get Free, Man: A conversation with Zoe Dubno
It can be easy, when you’re young and you don’t know very much, to be a critic out of jealousy. To say, “well, that’s shit, and that’s shit.” To come directly out of being a fan, and then decide to…
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Scout Finch Will Outlive Us All: Harper Lee’s “The Land of Sweet Forever”
… there’s no new work here, only archives with a pretty cover
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Writing Their Story: A Conversation with Melissa Lucashenko
I do aim to be funny and writers and booksellers tell me that my work usually is. It’s partly to soften the blow, make the hard facts of history palatable. But just as important – if not more important—is the…
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To Become a Fossil
Some people made long pilgrimages to marvel at this superlative specimen. Other people, like the girl growing up in a nearby suburb, got to know SUE through happy proximity. And because her grandma—my grandma—volunteered at the Field Museum. What I’m…
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Books That Made Me Gay: “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson
The mansion, introduced in the novel’s famous and enchanting first paragraph as, “Hill House, not sane,” is a home with a foreboding facade, an unhappy history, and walls set at angles all ever so slightly wrong.
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Miracle of the Ordinary: A Review of Ada Limon’s “Startlement”
Ada’s storytelling can be painstakingly slow and suspenseful, weaving through multiple plots and timelines. But it never fails to engage.
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Seeing Past and Under the Page in Translation: A Conversation with Heather Cleary
What I love most about translation is that it really is both an art and a craft in the sense that it’s a tremendously creative process. Every day that I sit down to work, I feel that effervescence of creative…
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Risk, Transgression and the Loyalty to Art: A Conversation with Sally Mann
“I’m still taking the picture of the road going over the hill, and when I see the road going over the hill, I screech to a stop and take it. The burden is to figure out the new way to…
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Hear the River Laugh
In the blink of an eye he slipped under. The flash of a foot popped through the river’s amber hue downstream from where he’d been. I stood on the side of the bank. Other swimmers reached into the river from…
