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Back to SearchN.K. Jemisin on THE WORLD WE MAKE
"…The idea just kind of spun itself into existence in my head, the world started to form almost immediately — when my creative brain kind of immediat…
3 years, 11 months ago
Louise Kennedy on TRESPASSES
"…It was at the end of an exhibition called The Art of The Troubles. And that had been a little controversial (as these things very often are in post…
3 years, 11 months ago
Marjorie Liu on THE NIGHT EATERS: SHE EATS THE NIGHT
"We don't know our parents, I mean, we think we do; you know, all of us have a practice of dealing with contained worlds. And that practice begins wi…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on MAD HONEY
"I was always writing, and I think it goes back to that Charlotte's Web thing when I had that experience of something taking me out of this world. It…
3 years, 11 months ago
Siddhartha Mukherjee on THE SONG OF THE CELL: AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICINE AND THE NEW HUMAN
"People write medical histories, people write personal case histories, I didn't want to do either. People write memoirs; I wanted to do all of them i…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ross Gay on INCITING JOY
"We were doing all of this for people we did not know and could not imagine. And as is the case, too, like, when you're planting trees, you hope that…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nicholas Dawidoff on THE OTHER SIDE OF PROSPECT: A STORY OF VIOLENCE, INJUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN CITY
"When I came back, I was thinking about how to tell the story. And I wanted to meet people who, in one way or another, resembled the young people who…
3 years, 11 months ago
George Saunders on LIBERATION DAY
"By making a certain voice, then I'm going to force myself to do new things in that story. The voice is for me, very measured and realistic and regul…
4 years ago
Lydia Millet on DINOSAURS: A NOVEL
"There's kind of an aspect of melancholy that I love as a reader… But I can't write a book that I wouldn't want to read… Although I am interested in …
4 years ago
Constance Wu on MAKING A SCENE
"I was always in a play, always in rehearsals. And if I wasn't in a play, I was counting the hours 'til I could be in a play. Because it was the firs…
4 years ago