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Podcast
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Julián Delgado Lopera on “Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You”
“I am inhabiting many different identities, sometimes multiple identities, constantly. I feel that I’m definitely building on a legacy of Latin American literature and Latino literature in the United States.”
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Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
“Literature has this remarkable, almost miraculous, ability to distill human experience.”
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Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song
“What matters to me is fidelity to something else entirely, which is how human beings are and how human beings should be and the chasm between those two things, which I think is what literature is for.”
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Melissa Mogollón on “Oye”
“There is a fixation on our self worth that is really tied to our physical body. … I [wrote] the extreme, the product of what that does to your psyche.”
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What Do the PDFs Say about This?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow
“What are the systems of power in this fictional context andthe story world I’m making? What are the stakes? What are the values?”
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Cecilia Márquez on “Making the Latino South”
“Using non-Black as opposed to white is acknowledging that Latinos can be both nonwhite and benefit profoundly from white supremacy.”
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You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel
“I grew up with this very firm sense that there were multiple places that I could consider a home, rather than homes simply.”
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Andrew Boryga on “Victim”
“It was definitely in demand, this narrative of explain to me your oppression, you know, explain to me how hard you had it.”
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Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds
“There is a kind of moment of doom when you commit to a character. Because none of my characters are lovely.”
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Melissa Lozada-Oliva on “Candelaria”
“I wanted to explore miscommunications between families, and I wanted to explore how deep sisterly love really goes.”
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Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff
“When you call a book ‘autofiction,’ you released yourself from the responsibility of actually looking at what the book is doing.”
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Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath
“I wanted to make nature a source of conflict, but also a source of joy and beauty and wonder and delight.”
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“We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”: Shehan Karunatilaka and Sangeeta Ray
“Seven Moons” makes space for the cacophony of ghostly voices of those killed and disappeared in Sri Lanka’s long civil war.
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Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch
“How I made the book determined the story that was created … Once you have enough of something, a narrative can emerge.”
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What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington
“You need your heroes to have flaws.”
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Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling
“Weird fiction is unusual, too, in how the unknown may be both horrific and incredibly beautiful.”
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Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
In the intro to season 6 of Novel Dialogue, Kate Marshall gets weird: “I was looking at writers who were considering themselves part of a new weird, and I wanted to ask what the old weird was, and so I started looking.”
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras on “The Man Who Could Move Clouds”
“I realized that if I was going to write a story about healers, I also had to write a story about healing.”
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Raquel Gutiérrez on “Brown Neon: Essays”
“Arts, writing, journalism—these things are born from our passions … this thing that is our weak spot.”
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Héctor Tobar on “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’”
“One of the things that helps define Latino identity is this sense of having a history but also not knowing the history.”
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A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto
“There came a point in my life … where I realized that almost every narrative, whatever it came from, that dealt with an African country was pretty much a rewriting of ‘Heart of Darkness.’”
