by Alice Stephens
“If mangoes, arranged marriages, and terrorists will make my stories mainstream for big publishing, then, well, we’re at an impasse.” Continue reading
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GO FIGURE: Intersections with Poet Alice Major
By Susan Sechrist
“…numbers have this interesting quality—they are abstractions, used for a fairly narrow purpose: to signify quantities. But they’re also words, patterns of sound. And words make linkages all through our brains. That capacity for making long-distance connections is at the heart of metaphor.” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Interviews / Poetry
“It Was Through Open Mics That I Began to Feel My Anger Was Acceptable”: Q&A with Julayne Lee
by Alice Stephens
“My redemption was to recognize the spiritual abuse and walk into spaces that know how to embrace me without judgment.” Continue reading
Authors / Features / Interviews / Nonfiction
“We have to learn from history and stop repeating its mistakes”: Q&A with Helen Zia
by Terry Hong
Where history lacks documentation, Zia presents the first—and only—book in English about “the massive exodus” in the late 1940s when 1.6 million of Shanghai’s 6 million residents fled the Communist Revolution. Continue reading
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How Villa Became Villa: Q&A with Cameron MacKenzie
by Alice Stephens
“Scholarship is the ongoing work of clarifying the historical record. The fiction writer is after emotional truth. ” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Fiction / Go Figure
GO FIGURE: A Glance Askance
By Susan Sechrist
“Levin guides us with a doubt-ridden but earnest narrator who posits questions about what is real and true, prodding us to analyze her narrative in the same way Gödel and Turing question the holism of mathematics, and the very nature of truth.” Continue reading
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“I cared more about making the reader uncomfortable than happy… discomfort makes you question and think”: Q&A with Joanne Ramos
by Terry Hong
“The ideas of The Farm are ones that have obsessed me for decades…” Continue reading
