A Mortal Education: Bernardo Zannoni’s My Stupid Intentions
In one of Solomon’s early lessons, he pushes Archy toward thoughts of his own mortality for the first time before offering religion as a solution to existential dread.
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“Speculative Fiction as a Survival Tool:” A Conversation with C Pam Zhang
Failure is an inevitable part of the process. The faster you get through your failure, the faster you’ll get to the end.
The Antihero: A Conversation with Kim Foster
I had to change the parameters of what I thought success was. Success might be a plate of eggs with toast or a talk on the curb. Sometimes the most simple thing is the thing that makes the difference. I
“Good Buy” to All That: Pip Adam’s The New Animals
It’s imaginative fiction in a way that is jolting to the auto-fiction that is so prevalent today, and it allows Adam to make commentary on the disasters of human ambition.
No Quiet Endings: A Conversation with Elisa Gonzalez
I do think that a stranger’s vantage point can be valuable and create interesting reflections or ideas, but it feels important to doing that in a way that was ethical.
The Body Made Glorious in Awakening: A Conversation with Diane Gottlieb
These are writers who didn’t want to hide anymore. Instead, they knew how important it was to share their stories.
Organic Sins: Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming
Have we made contact with the Leipzig of the late '80s and early '90s? Have we made contact with THAT German?
Facing Redaction by Way of Art: A Conversation with Arthur Kayzakian
We’ve all had that feeling where we’ve felt unseen. I think that’s a big part of this book. Maybe what was taken away from us was attention.
Permission to Write Her Story: A Conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito
Each adoptee has experiences that make their story unique. It’s important to understand that adoption is not a one-size-fits-all kind of situation.
Identifying a Mixed Flock: Dimitri Reyes’s Papi Pichón
Such multistoried, woven-together heritage justifies and perhaps even demands the necessity of different ways to tell an origin story.
Against Aesthetic Beauty: Lauren Elkin’s Art Monsters
. . . Elkin revisits works and experiences new ones, generating dialogues between them and their artists.
“I Was Watching and You Were Clear”: A Conversation with Carolyn Hays
I think every parent trying to protect their child wants to be the bulletproof vest. At the same time, we also know that we shouldn’t necessarily protect them wholly.