The Tragedy of Hope: Talking with Willa C. Richards
Willa C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
...moreWilla C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
...moreDani Putney discusses their debut poetry collection, SALAMAT SA INTERSECTIONALITY.
...moreAshley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
...more“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
...moreYou want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
...moreFariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, LIKE A BIRD.
...more[Y]ou can’t grow up in a cultural milieu and be immune to what it loves.
...moreThere was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
...more“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
...moreAngie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
...moreK-Ming Chang discusses her debut novel, BESTIARY.
...moreCameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
...more“Ultimately art is about making sense of our brief lives on earth.”
...moreGirlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
...moreMegan Giddings discusses her debut novel, LAKEWOOD.
...moreTope Folarin discusses his debut novel, A PARTICULAR KIND OF BLACK MAN.
...moreKate Wisel discusses her debut story collection, DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN.
...more“[H]opefully, the book is surreal but also universal.”
...moreGarrard Conley and Taylor Larsen discuss their recent work.
...more“Understanding that you can have what you desire can be healing and transformative.”
...moreBryan Washington discusses his debut story collection, LOT.
...more“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
...moreGovernor Madeleine Kunin shares a list of books to celebrate her new memoir, COMING OF AGE.
...moreLisa Locascio discusses her debut novel, OPEN ME.
...moreThe Radicals is the coming-of-age novel at its darkest: all the lessons are learned too late, if at all.
...moreThere are two ways to read Freshwater: there is the knowing and the unknowing.
...moreLilliam Rivera discusses her debut novel, The Education of Margot Sanchez, world-building, and her desire to see bookshelves filled with stories by people of color.
...more“I think time is really undervalued by people who come from money because they just have the time.”
...moreHannah Tinti discusses how The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley came into being, the formation of its characters, and how twelve scars and the celestial heavens help give this book structure and heft.
...moreDavid Hicks discusses his debut novel, White Plains, how much truth resides in a work of fiction, and becoming a full-time fiction writer.
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