The Alternative Hypotheses: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor discusses his new story collection, FILTHY ANIMALS.
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...moreChang-rae Lee discusses his new novel, MY YEAR ABROAD.
...moreBrit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
...moreBrandon Taylor discusses his debut novel, REAL LIFE.
...more“For me, there’s no such thing as an icon.”
...more“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
...moreBryan Washington discusses his debut story collection, LOT.
...moreThe words act as a push, like a wind at your back.
...moreBrit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.
...moreManuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.
...moreAt Guernica, Rebecca Saleton, the editorial director of Riverhead Books who has worked with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Peter Matthiessen, talks about her experience in publishing over the last 30 years and how she still believes that readers are, in fact, interested in ideas: We can get so carried away with the […]
...moreIn a recent post about newly discovered undeveloped photos of a Shackleton expedition to Antarctica 100 years ago, we mentioned that Riverhead Books publicity director Jynne Dilling Martin is currently an artist-in-residence in Antarctica, and that she had written a splendid essay about penguins for Slate. She’s since written a few other pieces about life near […]
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