Ten Questions for Yanyi

“Then summer came and there was a lightning moment.” —Yanyi, author of Dream of the Divided Field
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“Then summer came and there was a lightning moment.” —Yanyi, author of Dream of the Divided Field
The author of Eleutheria considers the literary value of the human instinct to look for faces everywhere.
“What if there was an agency that verified people’s online dating personas?” —Jane Pek, author of The Verifiers
The author of Eleutheria uses ecological principles to guide her writing.
An excerpt from All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond, who writes in the March/April 2022 issue about the unpublished novels he wrote before this one, all of which were essential to showing him his ultimate job as a writer.
“How do you navigate a life in opposition to and in spite of systemic racism, with poetry?” —Angel Dominguez, author of Desgraciado
“Don’t let an algorithm tell you what to read. Disobey the algorithm.” —Sarah Manguso, author of Very Cold People
The author of Nobody’s Magic considers what happens when you lust after your own characters.
“It took me more than a year to put aside my fear of attempting it.” —Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao
The author of Nobody’s Magic reflects on writing in African American Vernacular English.