Creating Community in a Long Line of Feminist Literary Spaces: A Conversation with Marisa Crawford
My guideline for myself and my advice for others in terms of curating and editing is to be open and let the work that’s created guide you...
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Causation and Carrier Bags: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler
Human exceptionalism is being challenged, and with that, there’s a growing public outcry that it’s time to care for our fellow creatures.
“There Is No Page That Can Hold Me”: Sam Sax’s Yr Dead
By insisting that Ezra’s ordinary life is epic, Sax shows that every life must be epic, holding everyone accountable. No one can sit out.
How Much We Will Never Know: A Conversation with Tyler Mills
If you can speak honestly about the risks you’re taking, it’s likely you’ll forge a deeper bond with your reader and your subject.
Fiction, Grief, and Healing: A Conversation with Claire Oshetsky
I decided what the world needed was a novel with a big old bestial lesbian love affair in it.
The Pawns of History Arise: Tania James’s Loot
What happens to the artist when his society shatters? How does he keep alive the impetus to create after losing his family and place in the world?
Songs of Reclamation: A Conversation with Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Music is massively important, and it’s layered in this book. It’s Bikini Kill. It’s Nirvana. But it’s also our spirit songs.
Grief at the Verge of Revelation: A Conversation with Hala Alyan
What makes a life? Not even what makes a life worth living, but what makes a life a life.
Finding A New “Happily Ever After”: Susan Ostrov’s Loveland
But for so many of us, love is “a puzzle with jig-sawed edges, and all we have are scattered, often missing, pieces of ourselves.
On Seeking the Woman Within: A Conversation with Lyn Patterson
My story is just one, but our unique perspectives contribute to creating a richer and more complex picture of our collective humanity.
How to Get Unstuck: A Conversation with Julia Phillips
When danger comes close to you, how do you react to it? How do you push back against it or cooperate with it?
The Archive as Potter’s Field: Hannah Regel’s The Last Sane Woman
As the handwritten stories unfold, the lives of the two ceramicists come closer and closer.