Readings

The author of Let the Lord Sort Them on the death penalty, Texas mythology, and retribution as organizing principle. 

Talking to the author of Fake Accounts about writing for magazines versus writing a novel, leaning too heavily on structural devices in fiction, and books that could use more sentences.

Overheard intimacy pulls the listener into its orbit, insinuating complicity where there is none. 

The musician, writer, and actor on revision, truth, and liking books more than people. 

The author of Craft in the Real World on revision, breaking habits, and fixing the writing workshop.

After my wedding, I began looking for a language for the partnership, both metaphorical and actual, I seemed to have contracted.

This year, every day I spent in isolation was in preparation for the days when I could join others in something bigger than ourselves.

There is something exciting about anticipating a space before it is inevitably interfered with by a human—what might also be called living.

Talking to the author of Wagnerism about uncovering counter-narratives, keeping a healthy skepticism of your relationship with art, and totalitarian intolerance of eccentric creativity.