Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold
Erica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
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...moreNothing in Texas came easy.
...moreJohn Lingan discusses his new book, HOMEPLACE.
...moreThe point is not to control the medium, the point is to interact with the medium, to find out what’s natural to it and what’s native to it and work with that, respond to that.
...moreKayleb Rae Candrilli discusses their debut collection, What Runs Over, reclaiming memory through poetry, and the political act of being happy.
...moreAuthor Laura Pritchett discusses her two most recent books, death, sex, and being rural in modern America.
...moreIt makes sense to me that Johnny Appleseed, a man, would travel God’s earth spreading his profligate seed. And then women are doomed to their lives trying to make that seed into something useful.
...moreAbout a year ago, I ended up returning to the land where I grew up and building a house here.
...moreShe never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
...moreErika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.
...moreDoes it matter what words a sign says when a symbol says so much more? A white X. A carved swastika. Things get torn down from less.
...moreA list of books about middle America that can, maybe, help us understand some of the stories we tell about ourselves about ourselves.
...moreLisa Factora-Borchers talks about being a Catholic feminist, writing across genres, and pushing back against a singular narrative about New York.
...more…being on the edge of the natural world is like being on the edge of time.
...moreOur American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.
...moreEach essay is animated by the conviction Greif articulates in his preface: that many of the reasons for our most common habits are wrong.
...morePutting experience into words gives them less power over me, I think.
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