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Suzanne Scanlon’s Life Was Shaped by Books—
for Better and for Worse

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Kate Briggs Isn’t Trying to Be Original

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"I’ve never been interested in making a claim to originality."
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Álvaro Enrigue Won’t Romanticize Mexican History

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"'You Dreamed of Empires' is at open war with the romantic representations of the Mexican past."
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Yomi Adegoke Contains Multitudes

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People struggle to hold multiple ideas in their heads at once, and so attempt to pigeonhole female writers, but I am very comfortable leaning into duality.
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Xochitl Gonzalez Wants to Reframe Art History

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"The only reason I was interested in the story was to give Ana Mendieta agency."
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Dan Sinykin on Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter

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"Academic Twitter is something of a compulsion for me. My wife hates it."
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Leslie Jamison Serves the ‘God of Complexity’

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"My early personal writing leaned so far towards certain kinds of self-recrimination that I had to learn how to lean away from it."
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Debra Magpie Earling Is Reclaiming Native Women’s Agency

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"All my stories have something to do with women who refuse to be pigeonholed or enslaved by men in any way."
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Kiley Reid’s Real World

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“I think it’s a huge detriment to literature that the MFA programs are the most consistent pathways to publication."
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Two Writers on the Woman Philosopher Who Changed Their Lives

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"Cavendish always thought she was writing for a time which was not her own; a century which might appreciate her more, and understand her."
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Lindsay Hunter Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Crime Fiction

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"I believe in breaks, in fallow periods, in getting one’s bearings. But reading is my constant. I feel bereft in those brief moments between books."
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Imprisoned for His Writing, Ahmed Naji Found Freedom in Literature

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"My aim is to provoke thought, prompting people to address lingering questions about the purpose of imprisonment."
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Thurston Moore Looks Back on 30 Years of Sonic Youth

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"I’ve always been very engaged with literature, but it's never had the profile of what I do with music, obviously."
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The Epistolary Friendship of a Writer and Her Translator

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Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney trade letters on friendship, translation, and their new novel 'Cross-Stitch.'
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Molly McGhee Wants to Rethink the Way We Work

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"When you have to work to be alive, at what point is the work you do harmful to others?"
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Yiyun Li Doesn’t Use the Word ‘Grief’

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"I write about something opposite of grief, about holding onto things, living on with sorrows, pains, or suffering."
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Why ‘The Exorcist’ Still Haunts Us 50 Years Later

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"Society lost its mind about this imperiled little white girl."
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Daniel Clowes Sees the Horror in Mundanity

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"It’s a very appealing idea to me, to find the grotesque and the uncanny in the middle of something that seems so commonplace."
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