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“The distances are staggering. It could take you an hour to drive to a spot on the edge of the horizon, yet that spot feels like it’s just within reach,” Barry writes. “This is what it means to live on the steppe. There are no walls between you and nature. You are nature.”
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Avni Vyas discusses her debut poetry collection, LITTLE GOD.
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Laurel Nakanishi discusses her debut poetry collection, ASHORE.
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Shin Yu Pai discusses her new book, ENSŌ.
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In short, lightness is the capacity to leave without regret.
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Vijay Seshadri discusses his new collection, THAT WAS NOW, THIS IS THEN.
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Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
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The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
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If the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
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I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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Christina Chiu discusses her forthcoming novel, BEAUTY.
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Juliana Delgado Lopera discusses their new novel, FIEBRE TROPICAL.
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I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
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At some point, I would have to break my silence.
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Isobel O’Hare discusses her debut full-length collection, ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS.
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Blair Hurley discusses her debut novel, THE DEVOTED.
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The truth is different. The truth is always different.
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[W]hat do you do when you meet the Buddha on the road?
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“Categories are, by definition, externally created and applied.”
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Faith Adiele discusses what it means to be a good literary citizen, the importance of decolonizing travel writing, and how she wants to change the way Black stories are being told.
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Rajith Savanadasa discusses his debut novel, Ruins, writing across oceans, and the chance encounter with refugees that led to the story at the heart of his novel.
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Poet Corinne Lee on writing her epic book-length poem Plenty and finding new ways to live in a rapidly changing world.
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Christina Nichol, author of Waiting for the Electricity, takes a deep dive into Korean literature and catches up on some classics of anthropology and psychology.
...moreWe had to ask everyone. Not just the people who looked “good” to get money from. And that was great because of course I was surprised by who responded and who didn’t. I feel, in general, in my life at this moment, I’m very aware of how off my preconceptions are, whereas I’ve always thought […]
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This week, your Storming Bohemian has moved to a new house. Again. And so some reflections: There is much to be said for stability, I know. The steady quiet observation of the likes of Annie Dillard or Henry Thoreau evokes my admiration. I am even an oblate of a Benedictine monastery. I know monks who […]
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I wanted to uncover the nest of wires comprising my gender identity and describe its complicated mass.
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One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”
...more[Memoir] comes alive at the fissures of its coherency: when a narrator is struggling to hold the self together in a text—for the reader’s sake if not also her own. Scott F. Parker met up with Maggie Nelson at AWP to talk about her writing, her sudden popularity, memoir (or life writing), autotheory, and Buddhism for […]
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Last month a bear ripped into my tent, clenched his teeth onto my upper left arm, just below my shoulder, and would not let go.
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Yumi Sakugawa discusses her latest book, Ikebana, discovering meditation, exploring blank spaces, and drawing a world of sentient oranges and one-eyed monsters.
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