Interviews
“Salt, Slow” Finds Liberation in Monstrous Women
Julia Armfield on how horror is the only genre that takes women’s fear seriously
Nov 19 - Ellie Broughton
conversations
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Jana Casale Says You Don’t Have to Kill ALL Your Darlings
The author of "The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky" answers our questions about teaching writing
Nov 14 - Electric Literature
conversations 
A Novella About Chilean History, Structured Like an Arcade Game
Nona Fernández, author of "Space Invanders," on reliving revolution 30 years after the fall of Pinochet’s regime
Nov 13 - JR Ramakrishnan
Interviews 
Two Women Navigate Racism, A Hundred Years Apart
In Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's "The Revisioners," a woman and her great-great-great-granddaughter navigate family and racial dynamics
Nov 12 - Sarah Neilson
Interviews 
The Memoir of a Political Prisoner Who Never Stopped Imagining a Better World
Ahmet Altan talks about his unjust life sentence and the book he wrote while imprisoned
Nov 11 - YZ Chin
Interviews 
Can I Write Fictional Stories About Real People?
The Blunt Instrument on sourcing your characters from life—without getting sued
Nov 7 - John Cotter
Blunt Instrument 
Writing Is Always a Political Act
Helon Habila's novel "Travelers" fictionalizes the stories of the African migrants he encountered in Germany
Nov 7 - Kenechi Uzor
Interviews 
White Supremacy Is America’s Original Pyramid Scheme
Ijeoma Oluo on the roots of police brutality, the model minority myth, and the school-to-prison pipeline
Nov 6 - Deirdre Sugiuchi
Interviews 
Poetry Can Give You What You’re Hungry For
Tommy Pico on his poetry collection "Feed" and why you sometimes need to log off
Nov 5 - Arriel Vinson
Interviews 
Ananda Devi Is Making Sure Mauritius Gets Its Due
Her work, like the newly-translated "The Living Days," defies the condescension that African writers are often subjected to
Nov 4 - Ariel Saramandi
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