On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.
The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance.
She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.
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She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.
The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance.
I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.
If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.
The author of The School of Mirrors on sexual violence, the history of midwifery, and opening up archival silences.
Ecological grief captures a newly defined set of emotions, all connected to our personal relationship to the natural world.
The author of Slenderman on deinstitutionalization, early onset schizophrenia, and "crimes of the century."
“I like when you watch something,” Isaac once told Rolling Stone, “and you get the sense it’s something you’re not supposed to be seeing.”
The author of Bad Sex on the body horror of pregnancy, selling books about sex, and why this might be her last word on her mother’s body of work.
The author of My Face in the Light on artistic process, phsyical mediums as a foil to writing, and the tension between surface and interior.