“Bird,” he cried, “I come on behalf of the emperor. Your voice is all anyone speaks of.”
On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.
The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance.
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“Bird,” he cried, “I come on behalf of the emperor. Your voice is all anyone speaks of.”
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.
As our collective fears shift, so too do the monsters that stand in for them.
The author of Any Person Is the Only Self on authorial trust, the occult of reading, and circles of heightened attention.
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I've long thrilled to the idea of being surrounded by people of all genders in the throes of passion, being able to appreciate them appreciating one another.
