Readings

On two movies about teenagers.

The author of If I Survive You on the gift of humour, the impact of the housing crisis, and family legacy. 

“Not here, not this school.” Until it is.

I’m the first woman in the world to get a tattoo because she’s sad! I invented it!

The author of Eat Your Mind, the first full-scale authorized biography of Kathy Acker, on renewed relevance and creative capaciousness.

Will there ever be a filmmaker more adamant about emulating the literary canon?

John Irving on trans heroes, the nature of ghosts, and a career as a worst-case scenario guy.

The author of The Tiger and the Cage on writing about her hysterectomy, the absurdities of medical metaphor, and the illness narratives that liberate and limit us.

On music for floating.