I’m Going to Keep Writing: At 91, Lore Segal Is Still Going Strong

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I still have a lot of curiosity, and a lot of celebration to do. It’s a lucky life.
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Homosexual Panic: The Millions Interviews James Polchin

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An NYU professor looks at how newspapers' true crime reports from the early- to mid-20th century reflected society’s phobia of LGBTQ people.
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Best Translated Book Awards Spotlight: The Millions Interviews Linda Coverdale

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As a translator, I’m responsible for providing information encoded in the text that's more easily accessible to a native reader—and doing it as discreetly as possible.
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Best Translated Book Awards Spotlight: The Millions Interviews Laura Cesarco Eglin

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I’ve been living with these poems for a few years: reading, translating, editing. The editing is difficult because you know it’s the prelude to letting go.
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Brett Kavanaugh and the Witch in the Woods: The Millions Interviews Leni Zumas

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We’re talking about how to change the patriarchy, and how to look at our own complicity in perpetuating it.
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The Stuff of Lasting Friendship: The Millions Interviews Jessica Francis Kane

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I think we're losing the art of visiting. We're so busy and unwilling to inconvenience someone else because we don’t want to be inconvenienced ourselves.
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Namwali Serpell on a Novel 19 Years in the Making

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Revising my very old drafts, I was surprised by certain impulses I had as a young person. I'm surprised by how instinctively feminist I am as a writer.
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It’s Our Time: Cave Canem’s Founder on the Power of Poetry

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My advice to a new writer is go where you need to get the support you need to write. Find the cracks where you can get a little juice and live on that.
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Starting Over Is What’s Hard: The Millions Interviews Mary Laura Philpott

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It’s frighteningly easy to settle into being someone you don’t want to be, because that settling can happen so gradually.
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Who Says Memoir Has to Be Nonfiction? The Millions Interviews Tyrese Coleman

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There was something freeing about being able to lean into the way my memories presented themselves in my head rather than shading them with research.
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I Think of My Stories as Comedies: Josh Denslow’s Sad Superheroes

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I might even say humor is the most important thing to me. It's how we understand each other. It’s how we relate to each other. It’s how we mask our pain.
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Please Read This Interview Carefully: Karen Havelin on Writing Pain

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I want to get people to talk about endometriosis, and I want the book to reflect an experience I’ve never read or seen in media.
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Anything Goes: The Millions Interviews Chris Rush

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One of the things the Catholic church prepared me to do was to believe in things that were invisible and possibly even farfetched and totally impossible.
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Cut the Sentimentality: The Millions Interviews Polly Rosenwaike

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There are a lot of secrets in these stories, and secrets play an important role in fiction generally. Everyone knows fiction writers are liars, right?
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Harmful Stories Are on the Rise: The Millions Interviews Susan Choi

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The tension between unleashing emotion and controlling emotion is really interesting to me. And theater is a context in which that happens in particularly fascinating ways.
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I Have to Write Differently Now: The Millions Interviews Jennifer Acker

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I was bouncing back and forth between people’s individual views about how the story should be told. I just needed to find the person whose vision aligned with my own.
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Literary Testimony: Fernando Aramburu Tells the Basque Story

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When all is said and done, a novel is a means whereby we impose order on human experience, always leaving to the readers the possibility of reaching their own interpretations.
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Drifting Toward Wonder: The Millions Interviews Lia Purpura

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The associative impulse confirms the deep systems holding us together even if we’re bent on ignoring or destroying those tethers.
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