Debut
Magic and Echoes: How Music Helps Me Write
Acoustic-rich spaces feel enlivening and the echoes they produce sound like life.
My Editor Was Black
Debut author Naima Coster on working with Morgan Parker, the whiteness of publishing, and literary self-determination.
On Making Things Up: Some True Stories About Writing My Novel
“I want you to believe every single word I say, but don’t be fooled—I’m using lies to convince you.”
A Fire
A fire starts with a single lonely flame swaying on a pocket of air. A fire is started on a bed of crushed discarded newspapers and wood chips, it flashes up for a few brief moments then quickly disappears. A fire is started by taunting and aggression, poking and prodding, huffing and puffing, pleading and […]
Day Moon
I was a bus in the San Fernando Valley in my hometown of Los Angeles, California it was between four-twenty and four-forty in the afternoon in August. The bus was not crowded but every seat was taken and I had just rung the bell to get off, I was standing near the front when right […]
Do you believe in true love?
Do we exist in a landfill of relationship debris or is there some magic left?
Writing the Canon of Now
“Our stories are like a glittering, infinitely faceted gem.”