“When working with or caring for someone with health or memory issues, the situation is often variable and fluid, and can change without warning. Caregivers need to be flexible. That’s how I approached this series of paintings: fluid and flexible, while using a variety of techniques to make marks on the paper.”
“Where the Hell Did My Memory Go?” An Interview with Lori Racicot Read More »
“Experimental literary fiction appeals to a smaller subset of readers than more traditional commercial fiction, and being a small, agile, independent press means we can publish a wider range of books without taking a big financial risk each time.”
Essential Enthusiasm: An Interview with Michelle Dotter of Dzanc Books Read More »
“Just historically, a lot of poets have had a bad time in their forties. Writers start publishing in their late twenties or early thirties—I think that’s when most poets probably begin to publish. I started a little bit earlier than that. At some level, I feel as though I’ve had very lucky innings, and I suppose I’m thinking about myself:  when is it going to stop, or has it already stopped? How am I going to keep myself honest?”
The Invention of the I: A Conversation with Paul Muldoon Read More »
“I think my poems are all Jewish because they’re all curious, and they’re all petitioning, in one way or another.”
Confessional Imagination: An Interview with Rachel Mennies Read More »
“Families of victims are allowed to grieve openly and freely if they choose, because their loved one was exactly that: an innocent victim. Families of shooters don’t have the choice to grieve openly, because they not only must carry the burden of grief, but also blame.”
The Space Between: An Interview with Kali VanBaale Read More »
“I think part of maturing as an artist is figuring out that the things that may have felt like a lack or an inadequacy can be strengths if you just double or triple down on them. Go all the way into the peculiarity and particularity of one’s own thinking.”
A Forensic Scientist of Myself and Everything Else: An Interview with Lauren Levin Read More »
“I don’t have much interest in formula fiction. I have a lot of interest in using the fantastic in all its ways to illuminate.”
Other Worlds Inches Away: An Interview with Neil Gaiman Read More »
“There’s great opportunity for comedy when a character acts out of hubris or spite because they practically write the script for their own downfall. A part of us enjoys seeing the other shoe drop.”
A Cage Over Your Heart: An Interview with Lillian Li Read More »
Being alone with our thoughts and feelings is an act of self-possession.
The Version of Themselves They’ve Been Told: An Interview with Danielle Lazarin Read More »
“People didn’t want Haitians teaching liberation to the rest of the world. All of those blockades from first-world countries left Haiti without infrastructure, without tools, without hospitals and schools. Here’s your freedom, but you’re on your own. Learning about that history was how I was introduced to the Negritude Poets.”
The Persistence of Stars: An Interview with Toussaint St. Negritude Read More »
