Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation in the Larger Culture
“[…] I long to get outside the ways culture has directed me to see myself, others, and the world.”
Philip Clark on Unearthing the Poetry of Donald Britton
“If anything, the poems are testament to an eye and a mind that was looking at the world on a different wavelength: there’s a remarkable particularity of language matched with fresh and jarring images.”
French, Arabic, English: Abdellah Taïa Discusses His Novels and Why He Uses the Language that He Does
“Though I write now in French, my feelings about this language are very complicated. I am in a constant war with it.”
Kaitlyn Greenidge: On Her New Novel ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’ and Writing Fully Realized Characters
“I think anyone can write any experience as long as they recognize that experience as part of the human condition. The problem arises when a writer uses a character’s social positionality as shorthand or for street cred.”
Carrie Brownstein on the Joys and Agonies of Storytelling
“Music writing can be very frustrating, too, but for some reason, at the end of three hours of trying to write a song, if I’m unsuccessful, it doesn’t feel quite as degrading as not being able to write a successful paragraph.”
Chinelo Okparanta: On Her New Novel ‘Under The Udala Trees’ and Being a Champion of Love
“It’s too bad that so many of us have a need to psychoanalyze love and destroy it in the process.”
A Look at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division: New York City’s Queer Bookstore
“The primary service we provide is a welcoming and stimulating space where queers can meet and get to know each other; share our work and our ideas with each other; and encourage, inspire, and learn from each other.”
John Schuyler Bishop: The Strange Loves of Henry David Thoreau
“In all I read about him, Thoreau never really became more than the wooden icon who tramped the woods and wrote brilliant essays. But he was a living, breathing, gay man who yearned for love…”
A few bold scholars have explored the mystery of Henry David Thoreau’s love life, but author John Schuyler Bishop has now written a novel about it, appropriately titled Thoreau in Love.
