The Weaponization of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Andrew Boryga
I want to see a novel with POC characters but that’s the least interesting part of the book. . . . Just write a great book that happens to inhabit this world.
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A Palestinian Voice in Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha’s Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Here, the will to survive outlasts destruction. Here, Palestinians in Gaza coalesce with the land and its resilient growth and beauty.
Writing about Grief is Making Sense of It: A Conversation with Kyoko Mori
When entering a narrative that has great emotion, it’s important to commit to capturing the emotion and portraying it. But also knowing when to stop.
Genius or Madness: Patrick Langley’s The Variations
Like a piece of music or genetic code, the gift changes over time and according to who is experiencing it. Langley’s novel traces the shifts.
The Other Home I Found is in the Art Itself: A Conversation with Richard Blanco
. . . it’s the poet or artist’s job to open up a new dialogue, to ask questions that aren’t being asked
Sustaining Forces When Splintering: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
All of life is simultaneity for everyone. We’re all inside of many different tracks of experience at once.
Punctuating pseudo-realities: Daniel Lefferts’s Ways and Means
This is a world in which the “ways and means” of the novel’s title are no sure thing, in which the relationship of the protagonists to the money they have (or don’t have) easily exceeds tangible causality.
Weighing the Risk of Love: A Conversation with Phillip B. Williams
I want my readers to get whatever comes to their hearts and minds as they read the novel.
Out of the Silence Comes the Form: A Conversation with Linnea Axelsson
An oral tradition is something you can add to a story that already exists, and you can now retell in a way.
The Potential Literature of Life: Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
Stop talking to anyone, everyone, about your new projects—just be quiet and think.
The Tightrope Walk between Authenticity and Fraudulence: A Conversation with Diego Báez
Humor and self-deprecation can impose an ironizing distance, but at what cost?
The First Book: Kate Brody
You have to advocate for your work and make sure that you aren’t waiting on some fairy godmother that isn’t coming.