“even as we all crowd the same body”: On Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa
To read Tetra Nova is to lean into nonlinear disorientation, flipping pages back and forth across time, scribbling in the margins of Vietnamese history.
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A Door Isn’t Just a Door: An Interview with Lucy Rose
I collect things like a magpie. I need to try everything.
The First Book: Emily J. Smith
I wanted to explore how all these small indignities pile up for women over time and what an attempt at revenge might look like.
Musings on the Lost Landscape: A Conversation with Lauren Markham
I feel increasingly in my life that action and feeling must be in a dance.
Meaning in the Mundane: A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful
Loss and loneliness might be ubiquitous, but Greene reminds us of their infinite manifestations, each with a specificity so intimate we feel it like a punch to the gut.
Of Black Milk, Black Bodies, and Accepting the Muchness in Lyrical Poetry: A Conversation with Tiana Clark
I’m learning to embrace my excess, and that gentle acceptance of my extraness waterfalls over into my work.
A Memoir of Becoming and a Tribute to Joni Mitchell: A Conversation with Paul Lisicky
I write because I want to be in another place, out of my chair, looking up at trees.
Of Tides, Stars, and other Motherly Forces: A Conversation with Stephanie Niu
...in the same way that words and sounds can rhyme, ideas and facts can also rhyme.
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.
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.