The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreGrief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreJameson Fitzpatrick discusses their debut full-length poetry collection, PRICKS IN THE TAPESTRY.
...moreCarter Sickels discusses his new novel, THE PRETTIEST STAR.
...moreMiah Jeffra discusses their new book, THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
...moreFenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
...moreMy body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
...moreLuis Othoniel Rosa discusses his novel, DOWN WITH GARGAMEL!.
...moreAlia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...more“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreThis is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
...moreBut then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
...more“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
...moreI am not coked out of my mind, I’m coked into my mind.
...moreAuthor and activist Sarah Schulman discusses her forthcoming novel, MAGGIE TERRY.
...more[T]he effect of reading Chee’s essays is to be reminded of why we write, but also, why we read, even in these times of never-ending distress.
...moreRebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.
...moreRumaan Alam discusses his new novel, That Kind of Mother, the limits of the employer-employee relationship, and the grossness of heterosexual sex.
...morePoet Stephen Mills discusses his first two collections, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried, teaching writing, and what’s next.
...moreChip Livingston discusses his new novel, Owls Don’t Have to Mean Death, his move to Uruguay, his writing life, and the significance of owls.
...moreWhat is so extraordinary about this collection is its lyricism, its humanity, and its urgency.
...moreRabih Alameddine discusses his newest novel, The Angel of History, surviving the AIDS epidemic, and the role of religion in his life and writing.
...moreWhat would it be like to not be us? We were trying to figure out so much about the world then, and this is something we could never get to the bottom of.
...moreVictoria Redel discusses her newest novel, Before Everything, living through and beyond grief, and why she loves secrets.
...moreThe more first-time stories I heard, the longer I was willing to wait.
...moreIn America, everybody, it seems, wants to be a success. Me, too. Recently, I confided to a family member that sometimes, in moments of deep despair (fortunately they are fairly uncommon), I find myself contemplating suicide as the most sensible retirement plan. The road ahead, paved with potholes and poverty, sometimes doesn’t look all that […]
...more1972: War was waging in Vietnam and kids were coming home in boxes. Hippes and yippies went clean for Gene McCarthy, but George McGovern won the democratic nomination. Tricky Dick Nixon was the one for the Republicans and the so-called Silent Majority. I was a sixteen-year-old runaway revolutionary of peace and love, living in a commune, […]
...moreNaomi Jackson discusses her debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, how she approached writing about mental illness and its affects on a family, and choosing to to tell a story from multiple perspectives.
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