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Novels
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“The Door’s Still Locked”: Fiction after Fascism
“Labor” forces us to ask: Who has power? “Horror” forces us to ask: Who is the monster? And the combination of the two, “Labor-as-Horror,” tells us to beware the uncomfortable fractures in our otherwise ordinary work.
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Novels are Like Elephants: Ken Liu and Rose Casey
“All fictional works are in some sense defined by the moment they were written and what their authors were trying to experience.”
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Novel Dialogue Season 9 Trailer: Writing Against the System with Aarthi Vadde
In the trailer for Season 9 of Novel Dialogue, Aarthi Vadde looks at the web as the predominant platform of cultural life, and one that needs to be understood in light of literary history.
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Our Last Supper
“The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild” is a novel that insists on the limits of what fiction can do. Its happy ending, the reader realizes, is no happy ending at all.
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“I Love a Dialectical Reader, and Best Is a Dialectical Reader Who Cries”: Jordy Rosenberg and Annie McClanahan
“I really just wanted to write a novel—I guess to me, this feels very queer—but a novel that was about tenderness and militancy.”
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And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde
“The longer I’m alive, the more convinced I become that human exceptionalism is our original sin.”
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Toward a New Abuelita Canon
The new abuelita canon is giving a sense of interiority to the lived and unlived lives of our abuelas.
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Aspire to Magic but End Up with Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs Speaks with Sunny Yudkoff
“I’m aiming for something emotional, psychological, but I want it as an emergent property.”
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To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi
“What can be said with language, a human invention, about something as ineffable and ephemeral as love or desire or rage or loneliness or despair, fear of God?”
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Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward
“When I think about the novels that sort of shaped me as a younger reader, they’re often books that I call the dirt bag novel, which is sort of a reformulation of the bildungsroman.”
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What’s a Theory to Do?
Given the scope of the crisis before us, we will need theory of all stripes to find our way forward.
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Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty
“It’s still a vast mystery to me how one can write knowing anything at all what they’re about to write.”
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“Their Lives Go On beyond the Book”: A Conversation with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
“It’s wonderful to be haunted by characters; because they aren’t ‘real,’ they can do or say anything.”
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Writers: Know Thyself in Excess
Why read MFA-trained writers writing about writers training in MFA programs?
