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Going Quiet as the World Goes Loud: On Private Anxiety in a Very Public Pandemic

Going Quiet as the World Goes Loud: On Private Anxiety in a Very Public Pandemic

the people who go in and don’t come out."">"In the back of the ambulance, I thought about dying. I thought about
the people who go in and don’t come out."

By Brandon Taylor | June 18, 2020

Brandon Taylor, Reluctant Novelist

Brandon Taylor, Reluctant Novelist

When a Short Story Writer Goes Long

By Brandon Taylor | February 18, 2020

Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

Josephine Rowe on Craft, Climate Grief, and the Politics of Fiction

The Author of Here Until August in Conversation with Brandon Taylor

By Brandon Taylor | October 8, 2019

Brandon Taylor: Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World

Brandon Taylor: Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World

On What it is to Grow Up a Child, Afraid

By Brandon Taylor | September 13, 2019

Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

On Alice Munro, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, and the Impulses of the MFA

By Brandon Taylor | May 22, 2019

How Mary Oliver Helped Me to Breathe Again

How Mary Oliver Helped Me to Breathe Again

Brandon Taylor on the Gift That is "Wild Geese"

By Brandon Taylor | January 18, 2019

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Kiese Laymon: Surviving the Failures of Others

By Brandon Taylor | November 27, 2018

All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

By Brandon Taylor | August 1, 2018

On Writing a Short Story: 'Everything is Always Happening, All the Time.'

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2018

I Reject Your Asterisks, and Your Dinkus, Too

I Reject Your Asterisks, and Your Dinkus, Too

Brandon Taylor is Not Having It

By Brandon Taylor | June 21, 2018

Stephen Hawking: Astrophysicist, Rock Star

Stephen Hawking: Astrophysicist, Rock Star

Brandon Taylor on the Importance of Science Heroes

By Brandon Taylor | March 15, 2018

After Alabama: Political Victories Don't Put Food on the Table

After Alabama: Political Victories Don't Put Food on the Table

Brandon Taylor on the Fate of Black Voters Who 'Saved' Us From Roy Moore

By Brandon Taylor | December 13, 2017

Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes

Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes

Brandon Taylor, in Praise of Slow Reading

By Brandon Taylor | December 6, 2017

The Miracles of Serena Williams: Black Sainthood Will Not Fix White America

The Miracles of Serena Williams: Black Sainthood Will Not Fix White America

Brandon Taylor on the Greatest Tennis Player Who Ever Lived

By Brandon Taylor | September 6, 2017

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2017

Being Gay vs. Being Southern: A False Choice

Being Gay vs. Being Southern: A False Choice

Brandon Taylor on Garrard Conley, Nick White, and Finding One's Real Self

By Brandon Taylor | June 6, 2017