Interviews

When we study evolutionary biology, we learn that parenting was never supposed to take place in just a nuclear family. Yet that’s what has happened in our culture—with the majority of the expectations placed on mothers’ shoulders.

I would suggest making friends with a horror writer, if nothing else.

There will always be something new waiting to be found.

I want the work to sing on the page and, if someone were to read it aloud, sing as it exists in the air.

There is only so much you can tell your children about the reality of the world. So, to navigate that necessary withholding, we tell stories.

What does it mean to live a life? What does it mean to live a good life?

I thought I was writing an essay, and then people kept showing up in my memory and talking and demanding to be included.

The people keeping the records tend to have authority, and they tend to have an agenda, so they’re going to portray things in a way that fits their agenda.

To create art is to share one’s own mythologies with the larger world.