Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized
...[BERLIN ATOMIZED is] about the internal and external chaos of growing up during globalization in an exploding, rootless world—one in which young people can’t tell who they are.
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Love, Grief, and the Search for Postpartum Healing: A Conversation with Shayne Terry
For me, the process of essay play involves a lot of making things visible that were invisible, which often means circling back to show what else was there.
Voice as the Sunlight of the Story: A Conversation with Robert Shapard
Voice is the sunlight of the story for me, the starting point.
“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.
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.