Claire Vaye Watkins Diffuses Grief into Landscapes

"I could see it all through the absence, the absence of my mother and of all that land."

Oct 3

5

September 2025

Miriam Toews Refuses Silence

"How I could meet my sister? Where could we meet in the writing, or in silence— or in my mind?"

Sep 19

3

July 2025

Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

"I figured out how to make my own sentences get long and twisty and spiraly and I figured that out through drawing."

Jul 3

4

June 2025

Nicholson Baker on Unsung Delight

"I wanted make a fuss with a pencil over some piece of life that has not been drawn."

Jun 21

1

Sarah Aziza Chooses the Pain of Love

"My intuition and I were still not on very good terms, but I felt my intuition prick at that moment. There was something in me that leapt up."

Jun 14

5

2

Lisa Ko Destroys A Lifetime of Journals

"If I didn’t write it down, did it even happen? Would I remember it? What would that mean for me?"

Jun 7

5

2

March 2025

Sabrina Imbler Finds Their Forms

"I'm really interested in going beyond that relationship of sameness."

Mar 27

4

Maya Binyam Loses the Illusion

"It started to not make sense to me that I hadn’t drowned."

Mar 19

5

Carvell Wallace Gets Into Right Relation

"I was aware as I was writing the book that I was undergoing this transformation. I'm still undergoing it."

Mar 12

4

Lidia Yuknavitch Waits for Her Wave

"We’re getting a really good look at what the vacuum of idiots looks like."

Mar 5

9

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November 2024

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."

Nov 15, 2024

8

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October 2024

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."

Oct 4, 2024

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