I Have Been Mythologizing Myself: A Conversation with Saba Keramati
To create art is to share one’s own mythologies with the larger world.
Interviews
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The Sad–Beautiful: A Conversation with Amy Stuber
I usually go into a story with a feel for a situation or a character or a place more than an actual storyline.
My Voice Doesn’t Fall Neatly into a Category: A Conversation with Desiree Akhavan
I think everyone changes. I feel a lot more steadfast in who I am and what I make.
Living in a Nowhere Space: A Conversation with Olivia Gatwood
Tech perpetuates ideas we’ve already had about women, but it just blows them out of proportion to kind of impossible degrees.
The First Book: Santiago Jose Sanchez
I was repeatedly drawn to the fractures in my life—the gaps between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and my relationships with sex, my mother, and my motherland.
The Complex Heritage of Assimilation: A Conversation with Randy Ribay
Our collective individual efforts impact in some way, the community. It’s important for me to not pass judgment because we are all figuring it out.
“I Wanted the Magic Bullet”: A Conversation with Jessica Hoppe
...that’s what’s toxic: the belief that I’m not enough. Substances are, in general, neutral.
The First Book: Melissa Petro
In our culture, motherhood is presumably sanctified, and I thought I’d experience social acceptance beyond anything I’d ever imagined. Instead, I felt under constant surveillance and yet utterly invisible....
“I thought my sorrow could transform me”: A Conversation with Megan Pinto
Visually, prose tells us that we’re moving through time, through narrative or rhetoric, and visually, poetry tells us we’re moving up and down through lyric, feeling.
We Live in History: A Conversation with Nicolás Medina Mora
Who among us can say that the life they’re leading is the product of their choices and not a staging of the script they were handed at birth?
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.
The First Book: Yasmin Zaher
If I thought too much about audience, or audiences, I think I would encounter too many opposing demands and the writing would end up average.