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.
I have begun to obsess about this one kiss. A kiss. What the hell difference would a kiss make?
The author of Reverse Cowgirl on autofiction, an uneasy relation to place, and languages of sexuality.
The author of In the Dream House on gaslighting, the lack of institutional capacity for change, and formal experimentation.
The author of Cherry Beach on exploring different ways of being, becoming comfortable with open-endedness, and putting yourself out there.
I see now that I’m synecdochic for every institution she’s felt pinched by, every older person she’s felt used by. She wants to summon what little power she has left and ruin.
The author of The Longing for Less on minimalism as an inherent judgment, the aesthetics of community, and why he’s hesitant to identify as a minimalist himself.