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.
“Don’t come out until I come back!”
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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.
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The author of Detransition, Baby on a trans worldview, resisting investing in illusions, and novellas-as-conversation.
The author of Let the Lord Sort Them on the death penalty, Texas mythology, and retribution as organizing principle.
Talking to the author of Fake Accounts about writing for magazines versus writing a novel, leaning too heavily on structural devices in fiction, and books that could use more sentences.
Overheard intimacy pulls the listener into its orbit, insinuating complicity where there is none.
The musician, writer, and actor on revision, truth, and liking books more than people.
