If My Body Were a House
Where my masculinity dwells, I am in control.
...moreWhere my masculinity dwells, I am in control.
...moreFariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, LIKE A BIRD.
...moreMattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
...moreI want to see myself as a whole person.
...moreTara Isabel Zambrano discusses DEATH, DESIRE, AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
...moreHealing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
...moreLeesa Cross-Smith discusses her new story collection, SO WE CAN GLOW.
...moreI wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
...moreJamie Beth Cohen discusses her debut novel, WASTED PRETTY.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...more…women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
...moreI remember driving a bird mad once.
...moreWhat follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.
...moreI have come to the desert in search of bones.
...moreKristi Coulter discusses her debut essay collection, NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS.
...more“If I didn’t allow myself to be vulnerable on the page, I wouldn’t get anywhere.”
...moreMaybe I’m not bisexual. What am I?
...moreJoseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
...moreI applied for a job at Hooters on a dare a few weeks before my nineteenth birthday. A shoe salesman who worked across from me at the mall told me he’d pay me twenty dollars to apply.
...moreFor the rest of this month, Granta will be publishing the winners of the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, awarded to five writers from five regions of the globe, with the mission to connect storytellers across cultures through the power of fiction. This week’s featured winner is “Drawing Lessons” by Anushka Jasraj, from the Asia […]
...moreJane Alison discusses her autobiographical novel, Nine Island, the value of truth in fiction, and unsubscribing from romantic love.
...moreTo lift the censorship, degradation, and foreclosure of girls’ fantasies, we may have to investigate the gendered limitations on how we think about early loves, impulses, celebrity crushes, and maybe, sexually stirring gentleman pirates.
...moreI didn’t want to be a ballerina. It didn’t even sound right. I wanted to be a gymnast. The word alone made me feel proud and stand a little straighter.
...morePaula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.
...moreGrowing up, I understood my father through observation, and I suspect that he understood me much the same way. I liked to think our love was purer that way. Like two stray dogs who found each other and are blessed enough to just get along.
...moreWhat do we as writers tell each other about the intersections of trauma and desire? How do we encourage (or discourage) each other to reveal the power and tensions in those margins?
...moreIt was all about desire, including women’s desire, Prince’s music. Women were not degraded. They were exalted, body and mind both.
...moreIs it really that human capacity is limited? Or are we limited by what it is we believe we are able, and allow ourselves—are willing—to see?
...moreI try to make sure no one’s around when I talk out loud to books.
...moreGreat strides, great artists, great desires, great complexity—this week’s books are all about these kinds of greats. They also all showcase exceptional writing and take us far and wide—from elective politics to abstract art, from Coney Island to California—to explore great ideas. How does the world change politically? How is a woman artist’s life entwined […]
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