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An Artist’s Discipline: On ‘They’re Going to Love You’
'They're Going to Love You' is Meg Howrey's second work of fiction set in the ballet world.
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Get into a Rhythm: The Millions Interviews Laura Warrell
"I’m obsessed with fractured relationships."
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Surrounded by Choice: The Millions Interviews Sopan Deb
"Writing my memoir essentially gave me the confidence that I could write fiction."
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Writing with Fewer Limitations: The Millions Interviews Natasha Brown
Natasha Brown discusses what brought her to writing, her book Assembly’s path to publication, and her fascination with writing about moments of social flux.
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Witch + Spy = Essayist: The Millions Interviews Randon Billings Noble
Randon Billings Noble discusses her path to essay writing, current reading life, the anthology editing process, and what's next in her career.
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Writing Is Thinking: Martha Anne Toll in Conversation with Ed Simon
Writers write, that's what we do—that's what we need to do. Writing is how I organize my experience and make sense of the world.
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A Year in Reading: Martha Anne Toll
The drama! The agony! The misogyny! The biting social commentary! The pathos!
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What Is the Value of Being Haunted? The Millions Interviews Randon Billings Noble
Essays are more important than ever! I mean writing that slows down, deliberates, ruminates, and examines its own beliefs even as it states them.
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Memorizing and Memory: A Writer’s Estranged Cousins
Oh, but daddy could speak. His words are emblazoned on my memory. They land on the pages I write—ubiquitous, textured, yet not easy to digest.
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Discovering Ourselves: The Millions Interviews Well-Read Black Girl Glory Edim
I want the reader to be hit with a sense of nostalgia. My hope is that the collection encourages readers to share their own stories.
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A Mysterious Respect for Lies: On Éric Vuillard’s ‘Order of the Day’
Order of the Day is a stark examination of the price of silence and the cost of sticking to the rules to keep the peace.
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Across Geography and History: On Esi Edugyan’s ‘Washington Black’
More important than travelogue, however, is Washington Black’s interrogation of human attachment.
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Working with What You’ve Got: An Interview with Lydia Kiesling
My children don’t make me miserable—the way American society fails parents of every background is much more immiserating.
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A Book for the Moment: On Helen Weinzweig’s ‘Basic Black with Pearls’
She explores the world she would have her heroine, and perhaps herself, inhabit: “After a while I felt I was walking in forbidden territory; I had a sense of danger that comes when one asks why is there no one here but me?”
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Obsession Is Universal
Is there art without obsession? Obsession is endemic to the human condition. It drives creation like sunlight nourishes plants. If artists are observers of human follies and failings, then depicting obsession comes with the terrain.
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