Another Other: Gideon Glick on Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
I’ve created Dill as a proto-Truman Capote, a young queer boy in the Deep South in the ’30s. To carry that around you have to have a strong armor.
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Becoming a Tugboat: On Rikki Ducornet’s ‘Brightfellow’
In Brightfellow, Ducornet forces readers to experience the physicality of reading, to feel and taste the act of storytelling.
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All of This Is Mine: A Conversation with Victor LaValle
The racism underlying “Red Hook" is too parochial to resonate; LaValle’s paraphrase is apt: “I’m being rattled in my cage by my fear of non-whites, and my fear of human insignificance. Here’s a giant octopus head.” LaValle’s assertion of ownership doesn’t supersede Lovecraft, but rather situates him, forcing him out into the violent, messy world.
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