There are no unread comments at this time. Good evening, writers, or good morning, good afternoon, or good night, depending on where on Earth you are. Tonight I want to talk about Octavia Butler. I’ve only read a little of her stuff (I’m reading Kindred and Parable of the Sower right now, in fact — […]
Since the beginning of time, the Moon has controlled life on Earth and shepherded the human mind through a spectacular journey of thought, wonder, power, knowledge, and myth. But this frenzied, multifarious, Earthly history disguises the truth of the Moon. As vivid and lively as our history with it has been, the Moon itself is […]
The following is from Hanna Johansson’s Antiquity . Johansson is a Swedish writer and critic who writes on such topics as art, literature, and queer issues. Antiquity, her debut novel, won the 2021 Katapultpris and was short-listed for the Borås Tidning Debutant Prize. For three days on the square they’d been showing the world championships […]
Novelist Jacinda Townsend and writer James Bernard Short join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the movie American Fiction, which is based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett . Townsend and Short discuss how the film addresses race in the publishing industry via its central character, Black author Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, […]
