Interviews

"What I actually love about writing is surprise. I’m hoping that’s why I surprise other readers, because I don’t know what’s going to happen until I write it."

Author Alexander Nader talks about his eleventh and latest book, Dirt Road Home.

"I have really come to believe that ignoring toxic histories is toxic for the individual person."

Poet Sandra Simonds and interdisciplinary artist Summer J. Hart talk with Alina Stefanescu about their collaborative chapbook 11 Triptychs.

Margaret LaFleur interviews author Sequoia Nagamatsu on his bestselling novel How High We Go in the Dark.

I wanted to write a book that sort of said, “We are all messing up. None of us know what we are doing. Even the people who act like they know—they don't know.”

"In a brutal-beautiful world, you bear witness, care down to your nerve endings, corral the light, and ease the dark. You also fail and f*ck up, again and again. It’s okay. It’s all par for the arena."

"Memory is such an interesting thing. It is the only thing we bring along with us when we are stripped of all we have. Interestingly, memory is also a malleable thing."

"There’s nothing wrong with writing when you feel like it, so long as you feel like it on a somewhat regular basis."

"I think if more adults were in touch with their internal worlds, and proud of this fact, there’d be much less conflict in the external world."