Interviews
A Queer Albanian Refugee Creates a New Self in Every City
Pajtim Statovci, author of "Crossing," on writing about people who refuse to be defined by others
Jun 18 - Adam Vitcavage
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Vivek Shraya’s “Death Threat” Turns Online Hatred Into Art
The graphic novel illustrates a series of real-life threatening messages Shraya received
Jun 12 - Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada
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The Cambodian American Writers Who Are Reimagining Cambodian Literature
5 writers discuss subverting conventions and writing against the trauma narrative
Jun 11 - Monica Sok
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“Build Yourself a Boat” Explores the Heartbreak of Black Womanhood
Camonghne Felix on using poetry to tell the story of surviving trauma
Jun 10 - Arriel Vinson
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Karen Russell’s Oddly Hopeful Stories of Ghosts, Dead Bodies, Devils, and Disasters
The stories in "Orange World" are full of strangeness and fear, but in an optimistic way
Jun 6 - Erin Bartnett
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Ocean Vuong Refuses to Compromise
The poet on his debut novel "On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous"
Jun 5 - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
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T Fleischmann Explores the Murky Relationships That Make Us Who We Are
"Time Is the Thing the Body Moves Through" is a book-length meditation on the indefinable things that define us
Jun 4 - John Elizabeth Stintzi
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Finally, a “Road Trip Across India” Novel That’s Not About White Men
Balli Kaur Jaswal's "The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters" follows three Punjabi women on a mission
Jun 3 - Pooja Makhijani
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Kathleen Alcott on the Lie of American Meritocracy
"America Was Hard to Find" is a multi-decade national epic about the three defining events of the late 20th century
May 31 - Rachel Lyon
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The Doomed Friendship That Helped Define African American Literature
Yuval Taylor on his book "Zora and Langston," and the collaboration and conflict between these great writers
May 30 - Jennifer Baker
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