Person to Person

Safiya Sinclair Is Ready to Say Her Piece

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"Through poetry, I felt I found my authentic voice and finally had the ability to speak, and through that, I had the power eventually to author my own future."
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James Frankie Thomas Found Himself in ‘Idlewild’

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"At the time that I started writing, I hadn’t yet begun to consider that I was trans."
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Lan Samantha Chang Revisits ‘Hunger,’ 25 Years Later

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"I had a piercing sense that I had completed a work encompassing everything I’d written over the seven years."
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Vauhini Vara Doesn’t Know How She Does It

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"So much of the process of writing remains mysterious to me."
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Maria Bamford Has Been Having Some Weird Thoughts

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"I work in show business; it’s kind of par for the course to say you’re mental."
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Min Jin Lee Still Believes in Truth

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"I think my career is this series of humiliations where I feel so stupid all the time."
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What Was the Crack Epidemic?

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"That this happened to a drug that disproportionately hit Black America is no surprise."
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Alexandra Chang Is Compelled by Constraint

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"Writing really is a series of choices."
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Sarah Thankam Mathews Wants to Remake the World

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"We can remake the world—with sufficient numbers, sufficient persuasion, sufficient cultural work, sufficient collective political will."
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For Ruth Madievsky, Voice Is Everything

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"The main thing I like to consume is voice-driven fiction. I always gravitate toward a voice more than anything else."
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Ann Beattie’s Characters Live in “Uneasy Coexistence”

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"In general, I think that there is no such thing as ordinary life."
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Pregnant Woman

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"I think art-making is a kind of caregiving to the self."
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Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream…ish

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"As a buckaroo on the autism spectrum, I’ve come to a place where I’m fine being a sort of outsider."
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Caroline Rayner Wants to Hang Out Forever

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"It excites me when it feels like I don't know what I’m doing."
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John McPhee Finds His Unending Project

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"There are zillions of ideas out there—they stream by like neutrons."
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Keziah Weir Isn’t Writing About You

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"Now people can do a 35-tweet thread about how their story was stolen."
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Bronwyn Fischer Weighs In on the Age-Gap Discourse

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"Maybe I’m contributing to something that I shouldn’t be contributing to."
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Kathryn Ma Wants to Challenge Herself

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"I wanted to do something technically difficult for me. I try to do that with every piece of writing."
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