My first two books—PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BODY and ENCOUNTER—have found a home. Typing that sentence is surreal because a few years ago I was walking a very different path, dreaming of finding my way to life as a writer. And now, with the help of many people, I’m living that life
In which I work a Tennessee tent revival… and go long on devils, ghouls, spirit possession, deliverance, showbiz, satanic panics, the Apostolic Age, the Therapeutic Age, mediated religion, and (even, maybe) try my own hand at an exorcism or two… https://t.co/gBmx8VICeI
Our August issue is online, with William T. Vollmann on Korea's DMZ, @skestenbaum on TikTok exorcisms, Ellyn Gaydos on granite carving, @karpmj on the American left, Jonathan Lethem on museums, @hishamjmatar on not knowing enough, Christian Wiman on Seamus Heaney, and more.
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"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power."
This interview is such a gift (especially if you, like me, JUST finished the mind- and body-altering ALL FOURS). Thank you for this, @LilyFelz and Debbie Ou!
"You don’t have to be articulate, which I think is important—to let characters be dumb and stumbling. That is what art can do that talking about art can’t." @lilyfelz and Debbie Ou talk with @MirandaJuly about her new novel, "All Fours." https://t.co/qwRmHmN67A
Who sent this to me?? 😭♥️ It didn’t come with a note. Reveal yourself for you have made me cry!!
(And yes I’m one of those freaks who color coordinates her books, leave me alone)
Such an honor to witness all the love for @alex_esp and his brand new novel THE SONS OF EL REY (also I won this ornament guy in the raffle and I will protect and treasure him)
@BarlowAdams Happiest bday, dear Barlow! I got to attend a writing mentor’s book launch today and there was so much support and love in the room. It made me happy.
Thank you to @LitMagPress (and the ghost of Chekhov) for giving a home to the short story I’ve held closest for the longest, and to @nycmidnight for inspiring my very first draft.
There’s so much emotion in the Arizona desert, of this I will forever be convinced. 🌵
To write violence, with visceral specificity so it is its most wicked & terrible, into a story handled by a skilled writer is to preserve life. “One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.” Jane Austen
Who sent this to me?? 😭♥️ It didn’t come with a note. Reveal yourself for you have made me cry!!
(And yes I’m one of those freaks who color coordinates her books, leave me alone)