The Body Is Not a Metaphor: An Interview with Emmeline Clein
Because this issue has been overlooked from a political and cultural and intellectual standpoint, partially because of its association with girls, I wanted to give it a really serious treatment.
The Whisper Network Electrified: An Interview with “Mike Antenna”
The new view of intelligence work is all about creating information, spreading and disrupting narratives. It’s no longer about keeping accurate records or models of the world; it’s about creating a world.
Too Sincere, Or Worse: An Interview with Annie Proulx
Denying fame, or incarnation as a public figure, does not necessitate abandoning pose.
Divergent Ways of Being: A Conversation with Emily Stoddard
I find labels like “spiritual but not religious” fall short for me. It’s a label that misses the tension behind this relationship to faith, doubt, and questioning the institution.
Facts that Care about your Feelings: A Conversation with Astra Taylor
And there’s manufactured insecurity, which is the kind of insecurity that facilitates the concentration of power and profit, the kind of insecurity imposed on us by our economic and political system.
Patterns and Poetry in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Caryl Pagel
To be a poet in the Anthropocene means trying to incorporate the structures we use in poetry or the kinds of imaginative, weirdo thinking we enact into our other modes of coping and relating.
Divine Reading: A Conversation with Sara Nicholson
Poetry is, or should be, a kind of thinking; it’s nothingness’s kingdom, where everything is possible. I use poetry to find out what I think.
Antagonistic Forms: A Conversation with Quenton Baker
And maybe that brings us to the myth of chronology: linear time equals progression. No. There is no linear progression and we’re reproducing subjection again and again.
On the Earth, or in a Language: A Conversation with Dong Li
As long as you have things to say, you don’t have to package or repackage things in a very intellectual way. If the thought is forceful enough, it will find a way to convey itself, even if it’s in a broken language, even in broken English.
At the Risk Management Playground: A Conversation with Tucker Leighty-Phillips
I guess it is labeled as a story collection. So they’re all—for the sake of categorization—they’re short stories, but I don’t know. Some of them were published as prose poems, and I think that letting them both be categorized and also evasive of categorization is kind of cool.
Veracruz, Exposed and Exported: An Interview with Sophie Hughes
Melchor would send photos of maps and streets and sometimes even drawings to help me visualize something in order to then set it down in English correctly. I run a lot of the phrases by her, and she reads the finished draft.
Suicide and Oranges: An Interview with Vi Khi Nao
In reading my work, you may have already eaten an entire fishing village and a boatful of suicidal aches. I used to stare at the ceiling a lot and it used to be my primary mode of creativity.
From Firefly to Bee Hive: An Interview with Grant Faulkner
The wonderful thing about writing about writing is how you peel off layer after layer to better understand not only your own aesthetic, but how that aesthetic is part of your soul, part of the way you approach life. An aesthetic is a type of lens you see the world through.
Palo Alto, Disinterred: An Interview with Malcolm Harris
It's not like you're going to convince decision-makers and they're going to make the right decision for you. It really is a question of forces, not men, which is the sort of line I hammer on throughout the whole book. Which means our response to it needs to be about forces, not men.
Cleveland, a Kleptocrat's Paradise: An Interview with Casey Michel
Forget the Cayman Islands. Picture instead the rundown Huntington building in Cleveland's downtown skyline and an abandoned steel plant in Warren, Ohio.
Passion, Edited: An Interview with Frederic Tuten
Since the release of his first novel in 1971, Frederic Tuten has charted a singular course through the comparatively choppy waters of late twentieth-century American belles lettres.
Talking to God Again: An Interview with Noor Hindi
I think writing is, in a lot of ways, life-saving work for so many of us that feel like we're walking through the world without a sense of being seen or known or heard.
Bringing the Body into the Room: A Conversation with Chris Belcher
The idea that you can just be in this space of pure intellectual pursuit, without a body to feed or provide shelter for, that just by pursuing these kinds of degrees, you leave your body behind, is a fiction.
Shooting at Nothing: An Interview with Ander Monson
For his new memoir, Predator, Ander Monson watched the eponymous 1987 action flick 146 times.
Very Funny, Even When It's Sad: An Interview with Daisy Fried
Daisy Fried’s most recent book, The Year the City Emptied, is a collection of translations and brilliant off-the-leash renderings of Baudelaire, written in 2020 in Philadelphia during the first year of the COVID pandemic.