Child as Mother to the Woman: Catherine Gammon’s China Blue
In this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
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...moreZakiya Dalila Harris discusses her debut novel, THE OTHER BLACK GIRL.
...moreJessica Lind Peterson discusses her debut essay collection, SOUND LIKE TRAPPED THUNDER.
...more“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
...moreBut this is We Ride Upon Sticks: someone’s perm falls out, someone becomes prom queen.
...moreCarter Sickels discusses his new novel, THE PRETTIEST STAR.
...moreThere’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
...more“[W]e don’t see the complexity of the individual experience.”
...moreMalaka Gharib discusses her graphic memoir, I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM.
...moreTom Barbash discusses THE DAKOTA WINTERS.
...moreSo I said nothing. To protect you, and to protect myself.
...moreClaudia Dey discusses her first American release, HEARTBREAKER.
...more[W]omen won’t forget this come November and beyond.
...moreAuthor and activist Sarah Schulman discusses her forthcoming novel, MAGGIE TERRY.
...moreThis is fault-line music, dangerous in an unassuming way.
...moreRebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.
...moreThe story of Rajneeshpuram is told in a series of events and everything within it is true. But it is not real. It does not come alive.
...moreOur country has always been ruled by and for the privileged, but never has this glaring injustice in the system been made so shamelessly clear.
...moreWe can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
...moreIn clinging to a set of memories that fade more every day, maybe I’m also clinging to an idyllic version of my own past.
...moreJeff Chang discusses his latest book, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, his work in hip-hip journalism, and the beauty and humanity of political protest.
...moreJason Diamond discusses his memoir Searching for John Hughes, confronting his childhood abuse, avoiding his parents, and writing about all of it.
...moreThe glorious ways we fifth graders died in Mr. Mosher’s computer class. We strove to die in the most imaginable permutations possible.
...moreAllyson McCabe talks with Ken Freedman, the general manager of WFMU (the longest-running freeform radio station in the US), about the relevance of radio, technological innovation, and a just-launched morning show.
...moreI try not to think about fashion. It’s more that I want to settle on something to wear so I don’t have to think about it.
...morePaula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.
...moreSeeing is a critical part of normalizing, and though it seems like a rudimentary expectation, it’s important for American audiences to see Korean-Americans simply living their lives.
...moreIs there any fabric more well-loved than flannel? At Vela Magazine, Sonya Huber discusses the significance wearing flannel had to her teenage self in the 1980s Midwest: Flannel hid the shape of a woman, yet it revealed as we pushed our breasts against its grid; it protected us from scrutiny. Inside flannel’s soft tent, I […]
...moreWith a flair for the both the juiciest and most humanizing parts of the story, Soraya Roberts over at Hazlitt pens a sweeping indictment of/love letter to John Hughes: Thirty years on, however, we’ve dropped the rose-coloured glasses, and our response to realizing he sold us out to suburbia echoes Molly Ringwald’s response in Vanity […]
...moreInternationally recognized percussionist, composer, sound designer, and audio archivist Tim Barnes talks with Allyson McCabe about how his musical career has developed and changed, and what he’s up to now.
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