Posts by: Lidia Yuknavitch
Moments of Truth and Beauty: A Conversation with David Rocklin
David Rocklin discusses The Night Language, the larger landscape of appropriation and empathy, immigration and power structures, and intimacy and representation.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kat Meads
Lidia Yuknavitch talks with her former Chiasmus author, Kat Meads, about her new novel, For You, Madam Lenin, plots a publishing revolution, and asks, “Is feminism dead or just in dire need of a blow job?”
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Afterward, there was dead silence in the kitchen. I know because I held my breath. Even air molecules seemed to still.
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The Urgent Matter of Books
People keep telling me that books are in danger of disappearing. E-books, Kindles, iPads will replace the object of the book as we know it. I’m not worried.
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WHERE I WRITE #6: Blood Red Desk
The top of the desk is blood. I mean red—dark red. But blood is my favorite color.
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