Tracing the Fractures: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
Kristen Millares Young discusses her debut novel, SUBDUCTION.
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...moreWhen I was growing up, I was surrounded by art and music.
...moreAnd in the silence of the night the small sound of small feet making their way into words.
...moreTo deny violence is to do it. Our surprise at Sandy Hook and Cold Springs and Columbine is a form of violence in its own right.
...moreThe violence came in and we were not just in danger of being victims of it. We were in danger of being violent ourselves.
...moreIt’s about greed; it’s about taking only the best part of things, the cream off the top, the fat. And this taking of the fat has reached a crisis point in America—a critical mass, if you will.
...moreThese are desperate times, and I’m not as desperate as a lot of people, but I’m desperate enough to need this job.
...moreThe thing about Paradise is this—yours can’t be mine, and mine can’t be yours. Paradise exists in the imagination, and imagination is our only privacy.
...moreThe more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
...moreOur bodies are incredible and intelligent things.
...moreProtecting the Water. Mni Wiconi. Water is Life. Over the last few weeks, thousands of Indigenous people, representing hundreds of tribes, have gathered together on the banks of the Cannonball River, on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, and in other places, to protect the lands, and the waters, and […]
...moreFeathers are a gift and flexible protein. Mom put down tobacco and ran her fingers over its exposed parts. She told me the salmon run is coming and this bird would have wanted for nothing.
...moreKurt Caswell’s memoir describes his year teaching in a place of violence, despair, doubt… and hope.
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