Zoë Ruiz, Author at The Millions

A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

Zoë Ruiz - 12.11.2021

Reading about harm and abuse, reading about injustice and inequality, as fireworks caused my foster dog to curl up with fear in my bedroom closet, seemed an appropriate way to commemorate Independence Day in 2021.

Zoë Ruiz - 12.11.2021

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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

Zoë Ruiz - 12.12.2020

“We Are Too Big for This House” inspired me to rethink form, how to work with time and space within a narrative, and interweave art criticism into a story. It’s a poem I’ll return to again and again.

Zoë Ruiz - 12.12.2020

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The Millions Interview

An American Nightmare: The Millions Interviews Dave Eggers

Zoë Ruiz - 9.16.2020

For a liberal democracy, this is as far as we can go toward illiberal authoritarianism without completely breaking the American experiment.

Zoë Ruiz - 9.16.2020

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The Millions Interview

The Spirit of Community and Collaboration

Zoë Ruiz - 3.6.2020

Our own Zoë Ruiz chats with Viet Thanh Nguyen; his six-year-old son, Ellison Nguyen; cartoonist Thi Bui; and her teenage son, Hien Bui-Stafford, about their collaborative picture book, Chicken of the Sea.

Zoë Ruiz - 3.6.2020

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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

Zoë Ruiz - 12.14.2019

I stayed in a one-bedroom casita in Santa Fe, spent most of time journaling and meditating and practicing yin yoga at a yoga studio a block away.

Zoë Ruiz - 12.14.2019

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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

Zoë Ruiz - 12.9.2017

As a reader and writer who is interested in chronic illness and motherhood, I found Jennifer Richter’s most recent collection, No Acute Distress, compelling.

Zoë Ruiz - 12.9.2017

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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Zoë Ruiz

Zoë Ruiz - 12.10.2016

In 2017, I want to read books that help further the idea that both whiteness and white dominance are not inevitable, and I want to read books that help me understand how exactly we got to the place that we are in now.

Zoë Ruiz - 12.10.2016

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Essays

Trauma Is the Thing We Inherit

Zoë Ruiz - 11.14.2016

When I started this essay, my father was on his deathbed and now as I finish it, he is no longer alive. When I think of his past, I find myself asking: How much did his past shape him? How much of a choice did he have in becoming the man he became?

Zoë Ruiz - 11.14.2016

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