Anne Rasmussen: Instructions for Losing Your Mind
"When you moved away for college he started scouring thrift stores on weekends for hidden treasures, selling them back to the bookstores...
Nandini Godara: Roseburn Sleeps at Night
"After Sara left, I considered the matter settled. The crowd was unanimously against the unbearable living conditions and no one could...
Brigit Pegeen Kelly: Song
"The head hung in the tree. The body lay by the tracks. The head called to the body. The body to the head. They missed each other. The...
Jill Talbot: Lonely Things--A Series
"A defunct drive-in (its overgrown weeds, missing letter marquees), the thud of landing gear on late night flights, the vacant...
Kaveh Akbar: Interview with Max Ritvo
"That’s really interesting. I actually never noticed how Zen the line 'I come from a place where the water’s emptiness' is. You’re...
The Lenny Interview: Lidia Yuknavitch
"If there's one phrase that I should probably tattoo on my forehead it is this: 'I'm not the story you made of me.' The more people I can...
Seema Reza: The Partnership Compulsion
"I am most comfortable alone, sleeping on my king-sized bed half-covered with books and clothes. To wake to the reliable heat my own body...
Sharon Telfer: Terra Incognita
"They spill their stories before the solid ground can make them fast. They tell of days when the sun never sets or never rises, birds...
Lisa Mcinerney: My Writing Day
"That said, a lot of writing work is done when you’re not writing, it’s done when you’re thinking, or when you look like you’re doing...
Louise Erdrich in conversation with Rebecca Makkai: You Are the Book You're Writing
"I think you’re supposed to work in the dark, that the search and the writing itself is the reward. I don’t know if you agree with this,...
