Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
...moreElle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
...moreLauren Oyler discusses her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS.
...moreYou want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
...moreI lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
...moreEmily Hashimoto discusses her debut novel, A WORLD BETWEEN.
...moreAhmed Naji discusses his new memoir, ROTTEN EVIDENCE.
...moreThe clash of opinions about music is music itself.
...moreI’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreJoyce Hinnefeld discusses her new story collection, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH.
...moreLeesa Cross-Smith discusses her new story collection, SO WE CAN GLOW.
...moreEmily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
...moreI sing it to feel the darkness of it. I demand access.
...moreKristen Arnett discusses her new novel, MOSTLY DEAD THINGS.
...moreTime has put those lovely nostalgia lenses in front of our eyes, and I am not immune.
...moreIf there is distance in this collection, it originates with our own discomfort with its subject matter.
...more“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
...moreTo write is not to dream.
...moreI wasn’t into girl stuff, but I loved James Bond!
...moreIn the past year, the writing process has become, for me, a way to navigate between the present and the past, between what I have access to and what I will never know.
...moreLynn Freed discussions her recent essay collection, The Romance of Elsewhere, the importance of a good first sentence, and the risks involved in writing irony.
...morePhotos carry our memories, and in their own unique way our cameras do, too.
...more“I think time is really undervalued by people who come from money because they just have the time.”
...moreI’m not here to wallow in what feels like our new dystopia, no. Me? I am here, to rest up before the next bout. I am here to watch The Price Is Right and make friends.
...more…yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.
...moreThree summers ago, I did nothing but drive around Middlebury, Vermont, blasting Lana Del Rey and chain-smoking cigarettes. It was—and I will be dramatic, because that is how it felt—an act of survival. That summer I was in an academic program where we were only allowed to speak or be spoken to in French. But […]
...moreOur American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.
...moreIn clinging to a set of memories that fade more every day, maybe I’m also clinging to an idyllic version of my own past.
...moreDoree Shafrir discusses her debut novel, Startup, the differences between journalism and fiction, and why she chose to tell this particular story.
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