By Susan Sechrist
“The fiction is self-contained and self-referential; it can stand alone as a finished version of reality, albeit in a consensually-agreed upon, useful disguise.” Continue reading
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Transformation as Action: Q & A with Caitlin Hamilton Summie
by Evelyn Somers
“I want to know what took my character there, and I care very much how he fares after he pulls in the drive. Perhaps these moments are where I live as a person.” Continue reading
Q&A with Don Lee: False starts, being radical & letting go of the small stuff
by Terry Hong
“I was trying to be subversive in not mentioning any character’s ethnicity … that’s how endemic the whole ethnic literature box was back then, this expectation that any Asian American story deal with discrimination or identity or diaspora. It’s still like that in many ways.” Continue reading
Panoramas of History & Grief: Annie Kim’s Into the Cyclorama
by Athena Kildegaard
“The concept struck me—a work of art designed to immerse the viewer inside history, a precursor both to the modern movie theater and the learning museum.” Continue reading
GO FIGURE: Overthrown
By Susan Sechrist
…unlike the simplest mathematical hyperbola, with its matching twin curves riven and moving toward different infinities, these stories don’t reflect across an obvious boundary condition—there is no simple, congruent image on the other side… Continue reading
OTHER BLOOMERS & SHAKERS: Leslie Jones—Look What She Did
by Shoba Viswanathan
In Leslie Jones’s comedy and performance we see a seamless blend of the political and the personal . . . Lorne Michaels told the New Yorker, “I tell Leslie all the time, ‘You’re everything we weren’t looking for.’ When someone’s funny, they’re funny.”
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To Forge A New Path: Q & A with Melissa Scholes Young
by Wendy Besel Hahn
“It’s true that you can’t go home again, but it’s not necessarily home’s fault. You’ve changed too much. Home expects you to be who you once were and can’t quite recalibrate to your new self. It’s exhausting and unfair to expect your people to know all of this.” Continue reading
