Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Michele Filgate Talks to the Very Funny Author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

By Michele Filgate | May 31, 2017

What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

Linguist John McWhorter in Conversation with Novelist and Playwright Kia Corthron

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Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

When language is in conflict with the very things we need it for

By David Chariandy | May 26, 2017

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

In Conversation with Rodrigo Fresán, author of The Invented Part

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Vera Pavlova Writes Poems to Be Read By the Light of a Single Match

Vera Pavlova Writes Poems to Be Read By the Light of a Single Match

Poets on Their Craft and Writing Lives

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Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

The Author of Woman No. 17, in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

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Stephanie Powell Watts on Writing Hard Times in Small Towns

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Édouard Louis on Class, Violence, and Literature as a Space of Resistance

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"When violence is part of your daily rhythm, you end up believing it’s normal"

By Monika Zaleska | May 8, 2017

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