Interviews
Editor-in-Chief Mensah Demary on Growing Soft Skull Press as a Literary Home for Creative, Risk-Taking Writers
“Sometimes I think this is my only role as an editor: to convince the world, starting with the publisher, that a book should exist.”
“I’m a work-in-progress”: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti is a writer and activist with two books out this year: the essay collection SOUTHBOUND and her debut novel THE PARTED EARTH
Actions Must Have Consequences: An Interview with A. E. Osworth, Author of ‘We Are Watching Eliza Bright’
“I take real issue with the idea of ‘in real life’ versus on the internet. That’s not a distinction that exists. It’s not honest.”
How to Sit in Companionable Silence: An Interview with Lynn Casteel Harper, Author of ‘On Vanishing’
“We can begin to identify other ways to conceive of dementia apart from terror. The stigma isn’t simply inherent—so it doesn’t have to remain this way.”
How Science Journalist Ed Yong Helps Readers Make Sense of the World
“If you do it well, science writing trains you to grapple with uncertainty, to embrace nuance, to run toward complexity, to try hard to make sense of the world.”
“You only have to find one editor who shares your vision”: A Conversation with Jonathan Lee, Editor in Chief of Catapult Books
“The goal isn’t to please the whole world.”
Let It Be Strange: A Conversation with Naima Coster, Author of ‘What’s Mine and Yours’
“The book is not straightforward, but it is expansive, and I don’t think the only way to make a story cohere is chronology.”
Jaya Saxena on Giving Ourselves Permission
“If you pick up a crystal and suddenly your writer’s block is gone, it’s not the crystal—it’s you using an object to allow yourself to think differently.”
A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore, Author of ‘Earth’s Wild Music’
“Linking climate action and environmental protection to social justice action is essential. It is still possible to hope.”
Nadia Owusu on Writing and the Work of Staying Hopeful
“I was grateful for the beauty and for the reminders that there are seasons; that things change gradually and also suddenly.”