Does It Make Him a Psychopath? The Millions Interviews Chuck Palahniuk

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We're starving for the One Big Idea that will simplify our world and unite us. What a relief that we have Jordan Peterson to show us the way, at last.
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I Was Formed by What I Didn’t Know: The Millions Interviews Dani Shapiro

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I didn't have the luxury of thinking, I’m going to write about this five years from now, after I’ve processed it. This book felt like it required immediacy.
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The Oakland Renaissance: A Roundtable of Afro-Futurist Luminaries

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If the characters who become part of the black canon are the creations of white people, Afro-futurism becomes an appropriation of white-extended thought.
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Ada Limón and Erika Sánchez Discuss Self-Care and a Life of Words

It can be healthy to purge dark things, but it can also excavate old and new suffering that needs to be attended to. The body can't always keep up.

Fate’s Brutality: The Millions Interviews Chigozie Obioma

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It is a paradox: that you can make a choice, yet, that everything is preordained? And it is in this space that I anchor my stories.
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Books Decide for Me: The Millions Interviews Ersi Sotiropoulos

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[A writer] does not have to be a mirror for his time. This is very silly, I think. Always, you have to step back a little. I, personally, take distance.
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I Don’t Want So Smooth a Shape: The Millions Interviews Laura Adamczyk

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It’s adaptive to become a sort of supreme noticer, and I believe there is a certain power—a feminine power—in that: to see and make sense of what you see.
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The Future Is Coming, That’s a Fact: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Sarah Schulman in Conversation

What happened to the dream of the city as the place where you meet everyone you never imagined? Of queerness as ending borders rather than creating them.

Discovering Ourselves: The Millions Interviews Well-Read Black Girl Glory Edim

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I want the reader to be hit with a sense of nostalgia. My hope is that the collection encourages readers to share their own stories.
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I Don’t Trust Images: The Millions Interviews Ottessa Moshfegh

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My approach to writing was like a little volatile. Sort of like “fuck you," what drove a lot of my creativity—not all the time, but I can identify that.
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A World without Adults: The Millions Interviews Jeff Jackson

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The apocalyptic has been part of the human imagination since Day One. My books are channeling those potential realities, registering those seismic ripples.
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Anita Felicelli and Huda Al-Marashi Discuss Diaspora, Breaking the Rules, and Reality vs. Likability

As humans, we're always falling short of our ideals. Why should white American writers get to corner the market on complex characters?

Elisa Gabbert Wants Interesting Thinking, No Matter the Subject

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Sometimes I like when writers really show every step of the proof, as it were. Maybe they’re revealing all their missteps or false starts.
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A Story to Be Told Once and Forever: The Millions Interviews Javier Marías

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And then the thing is that I don’t know exactly how I do my novels. Every time, I realize I don’t know how a novel is written.
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Whatever Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Needs the World to Do, He Creates Something to Do It

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It wasn’t until later on in college that I wanted to be a writer. I was never around other writers so I didn’t know that’s what a human like me could be.
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No Mexico, No Europe: The Millions Interviews Álvaro Enrigue

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What happened in the middle there? Greed. That was the generation that discovered, “Huh, we can own the world. The world is something you can handle.”
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The Heroism in Saying No: The Millions Interviews Javier Cercas

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We are all, in a sense, this guy; he's a perfect mirror of our time. This book says something awful: We prefer lies to the truth. Lies are beautiful.
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So It Doesn’t Whistle! An Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark

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When I write fiction, I feel like I’m slowly sneaking up on myself in a cafeteria, and there I am (a poet) quietly eating a terrible, complicated sandwich.
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