Readings

For the first time, I understood despair and saw my children burning.

The author of The Late Americans on ecstatic first drafts, satirizing the MFA, and characters who stake their lives on art.

Writers Rollie Pemberton (Bedroom Rapper) and Fariha Roisin (Who is Wellness For?) talk about coming of age artistically in predominantly white spaces, the power of vulnerability, and the intersection between capitalism and health.

On Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin.

The author of Dykette explores the tantalizing possibilities in stories of queer love.

Congratulations to all the nominees! 

I saw myself in the loneliness of her passing, and studied it for ways to avoid the same fate. 

I’d been enthralled by his writing for some years, but I had to go see for myself how the man’s brain worked.