Interviews
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Seeing Past and Under the Page in Translation: A Conversation with Heather Cleary
What I love most about translation is that it really is both an art and a craft in the sense that it’s a tremendously creative process. Every day that I sit down to work, I feel that effervescence of creative…
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The “Art Cop” in the Black Imagination: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor
“It’s really insidious the ways Black, queer, and marginal writers get sequestered from reading list culture. Unfortunately, these lists get compounded year over year, and it makes it harder to find these books. We have to read these books, seek…
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Mythmaking and a Codependent Sisterhood: A Conversation with I.S. Jones
I.S. Jones’ Bloodmercy reimagines the fable of Cain and Abel. In this book, they are sisters who seldom know each other apart from themselves. They are mirrors, but also opposing forces who test one another’s boundaries, devotion, shame, and girlhood.…
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Let there / be night: A Conversation with Kevin Young about “Night Watch”
The book as a whole is interested in the finding as much as the knowing and the discoveries of grief, but also of survival, and ends with a kind of paradise. I guess it’s interested in not just the underworld,…
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Divorcing Dad Rock from Gender and Genre: An Interview with Niko Stratis
I’ve developed my own framework for what I want dad rock to be. To me, it is a genre that is about people. I’m trying to approach it with very loose terms to not give away all my secrets, but…