Jo Hamya Is Not Her Narrator

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Jo Hamya shares how she reluctantly deals with reader assumptions about her narrator as a stand-in for herself in her debut novel, Three Rooms.
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Alexandra Kleeman Uses Interruptions Strategically

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Alexandra Kleeman discusses her second novel, Something New Under the Sun, and how shifting between different projects allows her creativity to flow freely.
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Reading Everything and Everyone with Anthony Veasna So

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A previously unreleased interview with the late Anthony Veasna So examines his path toward becoming a writer and how his reading list has always been all-encompassing.
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Poetry to the Rescue During Times Of Crisis

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Christina Waters examines the rise in poetry's popularity during the pandemic, and how the art form has famously flourished during other times of crisis throughout history.
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Into the Liner Notes with Kendra Allen

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Kendra Allen shares the inspiration behind her new poetry collection, The Collection Plate, including her obsession with closely reading music lyrics.
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Hermione Hoby Untangles a Web of Perceptions

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Hermione Hoby discusses her new novel, Virtue, and why she chooses to focus on characters rather than themes in her writing process.
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Pik-Shuen Fung Explores the Multiplicity of Experience

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Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, Ghost Forest, and explains how seemingly disparate emotions play a big role in her fiction.
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Thinking Through Texts with Anuk Arudpragasam

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Anuk Arudpragasam discusses his novel, A Passage North, and how he relates to the reading habits of his main character, Krishan.
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Katie Kitamura on Embracing the Persistent Doom

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Katie Kitamura discusses her latest novel, Intimacies, and how its story embraces uncertainty as a constant in our lives.
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A Cemetery Wording Expedition with Alex Thurman

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During the pandemic, librarian Alex Thurman discovered Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery and its fascinating grave marker inscriptions that happened to be common English words.
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Accepting the Struggle with Lucy Ives

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Lucy Ives discusses her new story collection, Cosmogony, and how she accepted the struggle of balancing a writing life with making a living.
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Musa Okwonga Does Not Strive to Be Universal

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Author and poet Musa Okwonga discusses In the End, It Was All About Love, a book that required him to be comfortable with the unknown.
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Qiu Miaojin and the Existential Wonder of the Immigrant Narrative

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Ocean Vuong recommends Last Words from Montmarte by Qiu Miaojin, a series of letters that explores culture, language, and gender.
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Saving Civilization Through Stories With Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his latest novel, Klara and the Sun, and affirms the importance of literature and storytelling in society.
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Alexandra Huynh Is Speaking On Her Own Terms

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Newly appointed youth poet laureate Alexandra Huynh discusses the significance of her new role and the motivation behind her own poetry.
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Mining and Mapping Life with Patricia Engel

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Patricia Engel discusses her latest novel, Infinite Country, and how storytelling was instilled within her from an early age.
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Rummaging Around Short Story Collections With Xuan Juliana Wang

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Xuan Juliana Wang discusses the art of the short story and how story collections showcase an author's ambitions and obsessions.
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The Resonating Work of Louise Meriwether

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Looking back on Louise Meriwether's 1970 novel, Daddy Was a Number Runner, a nuanced portrait of African American life during the Great Depression.
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