A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee
Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
...moreJanice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
...moreWhat happens when the source of grief comes from within?
...moreMaybe I’m not bisexual. What am I?
...moreLet me be clear: I’m not interested in changing. I’ve made my choice, and I’m happy.
...moreAlida Nugent talks about her new book You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism, the messiness and realness of sex and sexuality, and putting likeability last.
...moreMeline Toumani discusses her debut, There Was and There Was Not, the rewards and risks of writing a political memoir, and what it means to approach a divided past and future.
...moreJosie Pickens talks about building relationships through blogging, changing the narrative around black women in America, and eradicating silence through storytelling.
...moreAll this classifying, it seems to me, is the very antithesis of literature. The way of literature is to seek universality. Writers try to reach beyond those things that divide us: culture, class, gender, race. Given the chance, we would resist classification. I have never met a writer who wishes to be described as a […]
...moreWhen does an artist get to be called an artist? Anne Truitt explored the labels in her diary seven years in the making, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist. Maria Popova over at Brain Pickings looks at Truitt’s work and the “existential discomfort” at facing her life’s retrospective. Truitt wrote: The “just me” reaction was, […]
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