Feral Feminisms in Noir: A Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
...Intuition and empathy are central methods of communication when we look to understand others and to put ourselves in others’ positions.
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Kristen Millares Young
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Kristen Millares Young is a book critic, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction, named a staff pick by The Paris Review. Winner of Nautilus and IPPY awards, Subduction was a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year. Her work appears in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Literary Hub, and the anthologies Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Latina Outsiders, Alone Together, and Broken Free: Writers on Estrangement (forthcoming from Catapult). A former Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence, she is the editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. Her memoir Desire Lines will be published by Red Hen Press in October 2026.
The Persistence of Enchantment: A Conversation with Sofia Samatar
To me, the difference between invisibility and opacity is the difference between being misread and being granted a quality of privacy that is a fundamental part of being a human among other humans.
Everyone is a comprehensive mess: The Rumpus Interview with Robert Lopez
[Your] chosen Bermuda Triangle: the battered psyche of a man, the chosen amnesia of our society, and the resultant nausea of an era.
What to Read When You Don’t Know If You Can Go Home Again
Kristen Millares Young shares a reading list to celebrate SUBDUCTION.
What to Read When Your City Hasn’t Held Space for Your Community
Kristen Millares Young shares a reading list to celebrate SEISMIC: SEATTLE, CITY OF LITERATURE.