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  • Writing Desire in Middle Age

    Diana Whitney, author of the poetry collection “Dark Beds,” on being a late bloomer in publishing and wanting to be seen

    Dec 7 - Jennifer Berney
    Interviews Garden in front of house at dusk

    The Genesis of a Fictional City

    Eskor David Johnson, author of the novel "Pay As You Go," on what fables can teach us of our contemporary life

    Dec 4 - DK Nnuro
    Interviews

    A Woman Escapes Her Marriage by Turning into a Forest

    Maru Ayase’s novel "The Forest Brims Over" explores the gendered exploitation of being an artist's muse

    Nov 27 - Jaeyeon Yoo
    Interviews

    When the Museum of Memory Becomes a Haunted House

    Jiordan Castle's memoir-in-verse, "Disappearing Act," travels back in time to adolescence to the arrest that altered her family forever

    Nov 24 - Leigh Sugar
    Interviews

    Sigrid Nunez Captures the Vulnerability of the Early Days of the Pandemic

    In "The Vulnerables," a parrot without its owners, a trouble teen, and an older writer weather lockdown together

    Nov 23 - Jaeyeon Yoo
    Interviews

    I’m Obsessed with the Woman I Hate

    Sheena Patel, author of "I'm a Fan" on how Instagram is just like high school, and pushing the limits of what’s acceptable for Brown women

    Nov 22 - Shelby Hinte
    Interviews Red wall art of a 'like' notification

    The Craft of Turning Video Games into Literary Essays

    J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado discuss how their anthology "Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games" came together

    Nov 21 - Summer Farah
    Interviews

    Farah Ali Fictionalizes the Ways Poverty Shapes the Ebbs and Flows of Relationships

    Her novel "The River, The Town" is a portrait of Pakistani lives relegated to the margins by capitalism

    Nov 20 - Bareerah Ghani
    Interviews

    When a Box is More Than Just A Box

    In this comic interview, Mandy-Suzanne Wong talks about finding inspiration for her novel from a mundane household object

    Nov 17 - Coco Picard
    Interviews

    Searching for Love in All Its Manifestations Across Tehran

    Salar Abdoh, author of "A Nearby Country Called Love," on portraying Iranian life outside of the diasporic lens

    Nov 16 - Ladane Nasseri
    Interviews Three people sitting on a bench overlooking the city in Tehran, Iran

    Impossible Love Across the Partition

    Shilpi Suneja’s novel "House of Caravans" imagines the familial stories that were silenced and went untold

    Nov 13 - Preety Sidhu
    Interviews A woman in a blue and red sari stands beside a blue train in India

    Etaf Rum on the Role of Palestinian Artists in Resistance

    The author of "Evil Eye" isn't afraid of being cancelled

    Nov 9 - Bareerah Ghani
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