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Live! Garth Greenwell on the Ruthless Pursuit of an Aesthetic Life
"My whole aesthetic practice is predicated on— if something is too much, you do more of it."
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Remix: Jericho Brown Mitigates Violence with Tenderness
"I realized I have to live the poems. I want to live like the work I'm making."
Sigrid Nunez Creeps Along, Line by Line
"I would tell them about a piece of advice I remembered hearing from Mark Strand: When something comes easy to you, pay attention to it, because that’s…
Sofia Samatar Devises A Container to Hold It All
"I find genre a problem."
Emma Copley Eisenberg Jumps In
& a roundup
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Amy Lin Looks Into the Silence
"I felt something slip away from me— disassemble. And it was that belief, that the dead can speak to us."
Remix! Aimee Nezhukumatathil Names the World
"When you know a flower's name, you're less likely to trample it."
Roundup: Hanif Abdurraqib on Rituals and Voids
And news from Crystal Hana Kim, Heather Radke, Lydia Millet & Ross Gay
Dorothea Lasky on Sweetness and Horror
"There’s something in horror that, by acknowledging the evil in the world, is actually very nurturing."
From the Archives: Ocean Vuong (part 3)
"It feels like drag to me: to be extra. Maybe it is purple, and that's perfectly fine. There's too much glitter because we want to be blindingly present…
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Vinson Cunningham Makes a Monument in Time
Criticism as elegy, and business-casual as clubwear
From the Archives: Ocean Vuong (part 2)
"I think we've limited what it means to be male to the point where we've allowed it to be the furthest thing from being human."
The Thresholds Letter
The Thresholds Letter
Thresholds is an interviews project with writers and artists about the messiness, overlap, u-turns, revelations, and friction points from which their best work is made.
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