Aidan Ryan is the author of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You (University of Iowa Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in the Millions, the White Review, Colorado Review, Humanities, and the anthologies Conversations with George Saunders, Silo City Reading Series, and Best New Poets 2019. He is a senior editor at Traffic East, cofounder of Foundlings Press, and literary curator at Artpark. He lives in Buffalo, New York.
Aidan Ryan
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Writing on Public Books
The Author and the Eulogist: On Love and Death in Nonfiction
Authorial responsibility to a real subject—living or dead—is one of art’s unresolved and probably unresolvable ethical questions.
A Hole at the Bottom of the Book
For the writers Annie Ernaux and Hilary Plum, a paradox emerges with each new book: writing attempts “carry to completion” something lived, but also changes the original experience.
