Our Spring issue is here—featuring interviews with Sarah Schulman and Darryl Pinckney, prose by Tao Lin and Yu Hua, poetry by Inger Christensen and Joyelle McSweeney, art by Cauleen Smith, a cover by Cecily Brown, and more. https://t.co/Wi6EhKyB7H
“Men often ask me, Why are your female characters so paranoid? It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.” —Margaret Atwood https://t.co/FxsswKI8ih
“Abstraction is a little heaven I can’t quite get to.” —Donald Barthelme
This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Donald Barthelme.
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“Newly invented queer life needed its writers. So many gay novels of the time were coming-out novels that didn’t describe the actual lives we had created for ourselves.” —Robert Glück https://t.co/UGyvOFRWiW
“Once, at a gay bar, John and I were leaning on a jukebox, and he said, ‘I’d rather stand here exchanging limp remarks with you than go out and pick somebody up.’” —James Schuyler https://t.co/odVTpXlwcY
“Maybe I write because it is a way of thinking that has no possible match. It is a very active way of thinking. You think more clearly when you have to put something down in words.”—Javier Marías
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“Very early on I came to see writing as a place where truth could be gotten at, but also where the truth could be defended.” —Rachel Cusk https://t.co/70IUPRrL5Z
“I sometimes feel that the settled classes, the contemporary cultural czars who are the arbiters of taste in the arts and in literature, are often wary of the real, deep, unsettling politics that are not part of accepted pedagogy.” —Arundhati Roy https://t.co/mLTtrC8IuT
“I am quite agoraphobic. I don’t travel easily. If I can get into a library—public libraries or even a bookstore—I feel safe.” —Susan Howe https://t.co/dcraCi4SI9
“It’s like you’ve got a glass and as you’re revising and revising you’re filling up the glass, and at some point it’s going to spill over, by which I mean that through revision you make discoveries.” —Charles Johnson https://t.co/VeemPILCOG
“It didn’t make much sense for me to start writing. My financial circumstances weren’t such that I could afford to be a writer. I didn’t even have a pen.” —Imre Kertész
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