Life Gets in the Way: Talking with Emily Hashimoto
Emily Hashimoto discusses her debut novel, A WORLD BETWEEN.
...moreEmily Hashimoto discusses her debut novel, A WORLD BETWEEN.
...moreGet creative! “Brian” could become “Bryawn,” courter of women, slayer of ogres.
...moreBut this is We Ride Upon Sticks: someone’s perm falls out, someone becomes prom queen.
...moreGenevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
...moreKate Reed Petty discusses her debut novel, TRUE STORY.
...moreWhen Ashleigh Bryant Phillips lets loose, she can shock.
...moreKevin Nguyen discusses his debut novel, NEW WAVES.
...more“Ultimately, this is who I am. I can only write honestly, and from where I live.”
...moreThe root of these imagined, monstrous versions of women, Doyle argues, is fear.
...more“I hope it will mean as much to readers as it does to me.”
...more“Monster” is a good name for anything you want to destroy.
...moreNicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
...moreSteph Post discusses her new novel, MIRACULUM.
...moreHuda Al-Marashi discusses her new memoir, FIRST COMES MARRIAGE.
...moreTime for a flip of the gender script!
...more“It’s like a damn Rubik’s cube down there!”
...moreMark your calendars, gentlemen—and watch your backs!
...moreRumaan Alam discusses his new novel, That Kind of Mother, the limits of the employer-employee relationship, and the grossness of heterosexual sex.
...morePerhaps it’s more productive then to think about Rebecca’s craziness as a source of sanity in a crazy world in which women are routinely disregarded.
...moreAurvi Sharma discusses her memoir-in-progress, finding inspiration in ancient women’s voices, and writing against erasure.
...moreWe are all punchlines. Projections of projections of projections. But whose joke is it? And where is the bill?
...moreParker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.
...moreThey’re there but not there. They’re included but their stories don’t fully weave into the story.
...moreAnyone who made it through high school English can probably recall reading a story or two about young protagonists finding themselves in the absence of parental guidance. From whence does this orphan trope come? And why? Is this what all of us innately fear—the state of being in charge of our destinies, the only ones […]
...moreThis week, Karen Russell of Swamplandia! fame has a new story in The New Yorker that unearths the self-deceptions beneath what we often think is love, and also unearths a body. In “The Bog Girl,” a teenage boy named Cillian digs up the 2,000-year-old body of a girl that has been perfectly preserved by a […]
...moreIt’s not that the books that get someone into the “serious reader” club are all or even mostly by men these days. But the books that get you kicked out of the club are almost exclusively written by women. Hannah Engler writes for Book Riot on “women’s literature” and the still-unevolved stereotype of the Woman Reader.
...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 the Guardian, A.D. Miller wonders why writers struggle to describe the “bonds” of friendship in fiction. What he finds is that close friendships are often difficult to “rationalize” because they limit access to common literary tropes: Friendship denies writers the shortcuts they enjoy in the portrayal of other ties. A certain amount of invisible magic […]
...moreMaxwell Neely-Cohen discusses smart teens, furious parents, the apocalypse, and how our screens change how we see the world.
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