Mar 02, 2021
Let It Be Strange: A Conversation with Naima Coster, Author of ‘What’s Mine and Yours’
“The book is not straightforward, but it is expansive, and I don’t think the only way to make a story cohere is chronology.”
“The book is not straightforward, but it is expansive, and I don’t think the only way to make a story cohere is chronology.”
On the value of understanding the kind of ecosystem that will support and sustain the flourishing of our lives, on and off the page.
“If you pick up a crystal and suddenly your writer’s block is gone, it’s not the crystal—it’s you using an object to allow yourself to think differently.”
“Linking climate action and environmental protection to social justice action is essential. It is still possible to hope.”
“I was grateful for the beauty and for the reminders that there are seasons; that things change gradually and also suddenly.”
Nina Boutsikaris, Jessica Gross, Sarah Minor, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Tyrese Coleman, and Noam Dorr chat about what they’ve learned—and wish they’d known—about publishing with a small indie press.
“There were awkward motel and Airbnb moments involving my dog and other people’s pets. But I’m glad I have a record of those, even if I wasn't able to elevate them into art.”
“I feel such rage—and it clarified what is important to me and what I want to write about.”
In fiction, you can feel good about resistance without actually resisting anything.
The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.
It turns out all I want to find in literature, whether I write or read it, is a little piece of myself.
People have sex. Women have sex. It would feel irresponsible to censor or smooth over this part of their (and our) lives.
Why can’t the abled world fit into our world?
Reflecting on my personal work history, I’ve learned that searching for a job I love has often kept me from balance in my creative life.
In this three-installment column, Chloe Caldwell and her 12-month essay generator students write about their daily life during the Covid-19 crisis
In this three-installment column, Chloe Caldwell and her 12-month essay generator students write about their daily life during the Covid-19 crisis
In this three-installment column, Chloe Caldwell and her 12-month essay generator students write about their daily life during the Covid-19 crisis
Writing like I didn’t think anyone would ever see my words made me bold and reckless, taking risks I might have avoided if I knew my book would be published.
Writing was not the thing. It got me to the real thing—how I saw myself and my relationship to the world.
Dillard stalked a world just beginning its freefall into an unprecedented amount of change, and her response was to look, and to look hard.
