Readings

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.

Reckoning with the swift decline of Twitter. 

The author of I Fear My Pain Interests You on inevitable doom, writing through absence, and cows. 

Over seven decades, the right to forget has seemingly become intrinsic to Indian nationhood.

The author of Making Love with the Land on transforming pain into love, entering as a guest into the recesses of literature, and birthing a body of text from a body of experience.