Making Absurd Logic Salient: A Conversation with Alexander Sammartino
I like to think of the short novel as the thin elephant; as an artistic form, it interests me because, by definition, it exists in a state of tension.
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Our Anesthetized Culture: Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld
You can probably describe your algorithmic content with a comical level of detail—the unsolicited stuff you’re targeted with each time you go online. Mine includes nail art, vegan-alternative recipes for…
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.
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.