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There is a hyper self-awareness in all my work that acknowledges—teases itself, maybe—what it is addressing and from what entry point. I once modeled in a campaign for socks I designed for a skate label and on the box there was a small excerpt from one of my books.
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Willa C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
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Dani Putney discusses their debut poetry collection, SALAMAT SA INTERSECTIONALITY.
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Ashley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
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“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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You want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
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Fariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, LIKE A BIRD.
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[Y]ou can’t grow up in a cultural milieu and be immune to what it loves.
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There was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
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“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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Angie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
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K-Ming Chang discusses her debut novel, BESTIARY.
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Cameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
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“Ultimately art is about making sense of our brief lives on earth.”
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Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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Megan Giddings discusses her debut novel, LAKEWOOD.
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Tope Folarin discusses his debut novel, A PARTICULAR KIND OF BLACK MAN.
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Kate Wisel discusses her debut story collection, DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN.
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“[H]opefully, the book is surreal but also universal.”
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Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen discuss their recent work.
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“Understanding that you can have what you desire can be healing and transformative.”
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Bryan Washington discusses his debut story collection, LOT.
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“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
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Governor Madeleine Kunin shares a list of books to celebrate her new memoir, COMING OF AGE.
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Lisa Locascio discusses her debut novel, OPEN ME.
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The Radicals is the coming-of-age novel at its darkest: all the lessons are learned too late, if at all.
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There are two ways to read Freshwater: there is the knowing and the unknowing.
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Lilliam 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.
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“I think time is really undervalued by people who come from money because they just have the time.”
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Hannah 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.
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