Excerpts
A Conversation with Jia Tolentino
We need writers who will show up, pay witness, and not back down.
The Literary Pet of the Month is Minky
“Most of the time she’s sleeping in an empty cardboard box or mashing her head on a plastic bag, and usually a book only gets her attention if it has a shiny cover and casts a reflection on the wall.”
A Conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang
“I naturally gravitate toward writing about the illness and the body.”
“You don’t have to be mean to be funny”: Courtney Maum on Writing Humor
“Your own gastrointestinal system will tell you if you bombed.”
“I only draw when I’m bursting to say something”: A Comics Roundtable
“Drawing is like handwriting; everybody has their own style, and this style is like a person’s own unique aesthetic voice.”
Five Questions for Elizabeth Koch and Leigh Newman of Black Balloon Publishing
“For writers and readers who feel unfit for what everyone else calls life; who only come alive between the lines of it.”
A Conversation with Kashana Cauley
“I aim to tell entertaining, partially personal, partially data-based stories.”
Five Questions for Jennifer Dwork at Book of the Month
“We want to bring the best stories to our members—no matter where they’re coming from.”
Indie Bookstore Spotlight: Twenty Questions with Housing Works Bookstore’s Molly Rose Quinn
“Buzz shouldn’t be a meritocracy.”
