Poetry Is for Everyone: The Millions Interviews Stephanie Burt

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Today’s best writers of color and today’s best writers of underrepresented groups, including groups that I belong to, are writers who have learned from the dead.
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Bryan Washington’s Houston Is a City of Multitudes

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Everyone’s experience of a city is different. It’s not a singular experience that everyone is going to share.
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Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Gets the Book Treatment

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Lemonade is imagining black women’s freedom and part of that freedom is not being beholden to anything.
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Helen Oyeyemi Wants to Bewitch You

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With every project, I want it to be something fun to do, but also very difficult. The more books I write, the more interested I am in the process. The sense of exhilaration as I write.
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An Imagined Possibility: The Millions Interviews Claudia Rankine

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Our inability to have conversations is manifesting as a national crisis.
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The Unimaginable Became Reality: The Millions Interviews Shashi Tharoor

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When you break the barriers of civility that help hold certain standards of conduct in a society together, and therefore keep us all together, you make anything possible.
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Caitlin Kunkel Wants to Turn You On—Equitably

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Satire is like punching someone in the back of the head—it makes them turn around and look at what you’re saying, at the very least!
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A Constant Process of Waking: The Millions Interviews Mira Jacob

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For all the pain in this book—I cried a ton—I did crack myself up an awful lot. I’d be up at three in the morning cackling feverishly.
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Our Politics, Ourselves: The Millions Interviews James Sturm

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Doggedness is the essential quality that’s needed if we have any hope to cross the divides that separate us.
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Noise Requires Poetry: The Millions Interviews Shane McCrae

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I believe God is; I have no doubts about the existence of God. And I think it’s God’s very being that draws me toward God.
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A Way Out: Dave Cullen Doesn’t Want to Write Another ‘Columbine’

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America was so ready and desperate for something—we didn’t expect it to be these kids—but we were desperate for a way out, and they arose and let us out.
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The Good Place: The Millions Interviews Elizabeth McCracken

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Feeling competitive with other writers is impossible to get away from entirely, but it’s a useless emotion. There’s no way to measure it. It’s not bowling.
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Taking the Time: Christine Sneed in Conversation with Mandeliene Smith

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I’m not a fast writer; I tend to let my stories marinate for a while. Sometimes I even put them away for a year or so, if I can’t see my way forward.
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A Voice of Our Own: Debra Jo Immergut in Conversation with Lisa Gornick

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There is no correct way to be a writer: We each have to find our own way that works for our personality and within our circumstances.
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Dear John: Benedict Wells in Conversation with John Irving

Fear can paralyze me, but it also fires up my imagination, opens doors, and creates images I have at my disposal when I tell stories.

He Is All of Us: The Millions Interviews David Bowles

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Hopefully, as the new year begins, we can also hear poetry in the ebb and flow of the world around us, just like Güero learns to do.
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A Glimpse into a Different World: The Millions Interviews Bruce Humes

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By making the reader commit these phrases to memory—the terms were generally defined only upon first mention—it subtly engaged the reader in the story.
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Southern Discomfort: The Millions Interviews Snowden Wright

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Southern stories require at least one dog, but it does not have to have four legs. Southern stories know how to whistle but not necessarily "Dixie."
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