Readings

'I Thought the World Needed to See Prince's Pages': An Interview with Dan Piepenbring

The co-author of The Beautiful Ones on writing after Prince's death, searching through his archives, and meeting your heroes. 

The Strange Life of the Modlins

The world left their art behind, until a young man found a series of photographs blowing along a street in Spain.

'A Wild and Contrary Act of Acceptance': An Interview with Mary H.K. Choi

The author of Permanent Record on families of origin, emotional expense, and bodega cats. 

'Real Children in Extreme Circumstances': An Interview with Michael Crummey

The author of The Innocents on growing up, survival, and giving your characters dignity. 

'The Future is Very Opaque': An Interview with Jia Tolentino

The author of Trick Mirror on the self as a lens on the system, scams, and the internet beat. 

'The Way One Sees Oneself is Shifting Every Day': An Interview with Natasha Stagg

The author of Sleeveless on 2010s New York, jealousy, and being out of touch. 

City of the Mute

To visit Drancy is to confront dark and unsettled questions of who is remembered, who is heard, who can speak, and why.

'Doubt Can Be a Formidable Ally': An Interview with Josephine Rowe

The author of Here Until August on the cruelty of language, fiction as a form of introspection, and writing as an act against ventriloquism.

'I Like Writing Stories That Get Carried Away': An Interview with Michael DeForge

Talking to the author and artist of Leaving Richard's Valley and Stunt about addressing working conditions in comics, benevolent cults, and the pleasure of soliloquies.

'Identity is So Inconsistent': An Interview with Jenny Heijun Wills

The author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. on which adoption narratives get to be good, surveillance, and memoir as reclamation.