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After the memorials, the funerals, the endless influx of flowers and casserole dishes and well-meaning texts, the collective retreats back into their lives and all that is left is the individual, grieving for months and years and perhaps even the rest of their own life.
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Lim has written before about experimental fiction and the need to slough off such conventions of narrative as plot.
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Michael Prior discusses his new collection of poetry, BURNING PROVENCE.
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For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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Pretend you are Austen. Enact an Austen novel. And what will happen?
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Geeta Kothari discusses her debut collection, American xenophobia, and the immigrant narrative.
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Tamiko Nimura talks about the influence of history, memory, and silence on her work; creating a private MFA for herself; and writing a generational memoir.
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Author and translator Jay Rubin talks about his new novel, The Sun Gods, translating Haruki Murakami into English, and the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II.
...moreConflicts between “rowdies” and other prisoners interrupted the daily routines of several, if not all, the camps. At the Gila River camp in Arizona, for instance, the editors of the center’s newspaper complained that zoot suiters had swiped all the chains from the laundry sinks to use as watch chains. Nikkei Chicago’s Ellen Wu has […]
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