Disclaimer: This interview discusses addiction and may be hard for some to read. Erin Khar offers anecdotal advice that is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Erin Khar’s debut memoir, Strung […]
Interviews
“In Books, as in Confessionals, Only the Unspeakable Is Worth Confessing”
Edoardo Albinati’s first novel to be translated into English has been described by some as semi-autobiographical or “autofiction”—though the author has insisted in one of only two previously printed interviews in English that the narrator of “The Catholic School” who shares his name is “not autobiographically [him].” This interview, translated by Dave Johnson, aims not to uncover the biography of the author Edoardo Albinati, but rather to dive deeper still into the world of his self-named narrator.
Directed by Pennacky
It was 8 a.m. on Sunday in Brooklyn, and while my translator, Kana Motojima, and I groggily boiled water for our tea, Kenichiro “Ken” Tanaka was taking a quick 10 p.m. break at a shared […]
Golden State: The Alchemy of a Reluctant Memoirist
“The struggle with writing all the time is that you, occasionally, have to go to unimaginable places.”
Interview With a Sugar Baby
Anna* is a woman in her mid-twenties who is studying for her Master’s degree in New York City at an Ivy League University. When she was denied financial aid, she sought out alternative methods to pay for school. She signed up for a website that focuses on sugar dating, where her company is valued by an exchange of an allowance or gifts. In this interview, we discuss her personal life, her lifestyle, and her opinion on sugaring.
Good Talk: A Conversation with Mira Jacob
Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, and long-listed for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize.
“To see something last, it’s like death escaped”
Grafton Tanner conjures the ghosts in our devices and invites us to join their chatroom. You’ll leave haunted.
“Writing is also an opportunity to learn new things”
I can’t pinpoint the moment I met Lidudumalingani. Throughout my time in Cape Town I encountered him at film festivals, talks on creativity, live music events, book gatherings and around the dinner tables of mutual friends.
Verse, Prose, and Slow-Cooked Oatmeal
In 2018, Elizabeth Acevedo debuted her first YA novel, The Poet X, and in true Dominican fashion, she has been arrasando con todo ever since, raking in literary awards from left to right. Her new […]
Talking Funny
Last summer, I was one of many wide-eyed emerging writers who attended a craft seminar during The New School’s Summer Writers Colony where Elissa Bassist, the editor of the Funny Women column on TheRumpus.net, discussed what it means to write humor in New York.