“stones will know”: On Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
Hood wonders how to write rape and its aftermath when its very nature is fragmentation, a form that disqualifies it as a story.
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A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records
Sophronius writes from an awareness of Chinese Indonesian marginality, yet the pulse of the collection’s counternarrative coheres around an Indonesian national identity.
Redefining Memoir: A Conversation with Jackie Domenus
For queer and trans writers, our narratives are usually not traditional or linear.
Unearthing the Sediment of Stories in Our Bodies: An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
When I’m inside creativity or making art, it feels like a worthy place for a person like me to spend her life.
There Would Still Be Love: A Conversation with Matthew Nienow
I’m committed to and interested in this kind of deep accountability and honesty.
To Write about the Way You Read is to Write about the Way You Live: A Conversation with Sarah Chihaya
...to write about the way I read, I also had to write about the way I lived
Queer Mormon Joy Beyond the Fairy Tale: AJ Romriell’s Wolf Act
...the sacred and the profane are hidden in each other’s disguises, like Red Riding Hood’s Granny with her suspiciously sharp teeth.
Endless Leisure: Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence
Under the right eyes, everything that Torres touches turns to gold.
Love and Technology in the Time of Climate Change: A Conversation with Anita Felicelli
...regardless of what part of the coast you land on, an atmosphere of limitlessness pervades.
We Are Not Free: A Conversation with Roberto Carlos Garcia
We also know that by disrupting and challenging the language, or dismantling the language, we can, hopefully, dismantle white supremacy.
No One Gets off Scot-Free: Jill McCorkle’s Old Crimes
This is such a powerful manifestation of fiction: as writers, much as we make stuff up, we are always writing someone’s story.