Writing in the Kitchen, in the Presence of Those I Love Most
Maybe I’m just not a writer who’s meant to work in peace and quiet, as lovely as that sounds.
Maybe I’m just not a writer who’s meant to work in peace and quiet, as lovely as that sounds.
“Although my main characters find themselves in difficult circumstances, they are not passive. They resist, confront, and sometimes arrive at moments of transcendence.”
“Who we are, what our identities and backgrounds and politics are, all of these things animate how we experience a place.”
“Sometimes I think this is my only role as an editor: to convince the world, starting with the publisher, that a book should exist.”
“If you do it well, science writing trains you to grapple with uncertainty, to embrace nuance, to run toward complexity, to try hard to make sense of the world.”
“The goal isn’t to please the whole world.”
“Because Catapult is multifaceted, because our content spans so many subjects, it seemed the Catapult Artist program would really be an extension of what the magazine was already doing.”
A roundup of stories from our week together at Catapult.
A roundup of stories from our week together at Catapult.