Black Poetics: A Conversation with Dr. Taylor Byas
We want you to learn from this book, be curious, and leave with a desire to learn more and an idea of where to go to find what you want to know.
Features & Reviews
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The Man Who Swallowed a Bullet and the Woman Who Wrote About It: A Conversation with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
In the spirit of leaning into the strengths you have as a writer, I try to make setting another character when I write and try to make the picture as vivid for readers as I can.
Psychedelic Revision: Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dream of Empires
It is in their form—ravaging, dumb, dreamlike, free—that we can glean momentary order from Enrigue’s comic humor.
Listen Repetitively: A Conversation with Zachary Pace
I love to listen repetitively, and I love to appreciate and to praise the people who I respect and admire, so I thought, “This is what I can do. I can just love and love again through this book.”
Sketch Book Reviews: Ardor
Knorr . . . makes a variety of forms and experiments into a cohesive artifact.
Mother, Wife, Writer, Daughter: A Conversation with Julie Myerson
"When we love people, we stand to lose so much, don’t we? It’s one of the best things to write about."
Competing Impulses: Blake Butler’s Molly
"Should I be allowed to make this said? To bring to light a part of Molly’s story she covered over at any cost?"
Longing for Home: A Conversation with Gemini Wahhaj
The diaspora is not just a longing for home but is also really complicated and beautiful and painful, this mysterious experience abroad.
The First Book: Vanessa Chan
Ambition and achievement are great, but gratitude is the true source of joy.
Friendship Sunset: A Conversation with Maria Hummel
Friendship is in some ways the purest expression of love. Friendship doesn’t ask for something back in the same way that other loves do.
The First Book: Soraya Palmer
I thought about stories that saved me as a child by showing me what was possible. And then I thought about the stories that were missing.
The First Book: A. Light Zachary
I gave up on "speaking truth to power" when I remembered our oppressors will never read my poetry.