by Sonya Chung
“I wanted to explore motherhood via daughterhood—what kind of mother is an unprepared, unwilling mother? Can she still be ‘good’?”
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Category Archives: Interviews
One Doctor to Another: Mikhail Bulgakov & Julie Lekstrom Himes
by Martha Anne Toll
“[W]hat drew me to this particular time and place in history was the intense duress under which the average person was forced to live. These were people we might know; people we might imagine to be.” Continue reading
An Intimate Community: Murder and Escape in Warren Read’s Ash Falls
by Ericka Taylor
“[Writing outside the town] felt more precarious and insecure … it seemed the characters shared those same feelings of anticipation, excitement or dread. If they did not have full domain over their lives in Ash Falls, they had absolutely no control when they were outside its borders.”
Q&A with Lisa Ko: Trying and Failing and Trying Again
By Terry Hong
The real-life stories that first inspired The Leavers involved the children of these immigrant women adopted into mostly white, middle-class American families—and courts were saying that this was a “better fit” for the children, even if their mothers wanted to keep them. Continue reading
Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
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
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
