"We're all complicated, and we all make mistakes, and we all love each other. I like getting at that sort of very realistic aspect of the human experience, which is that sort of complicated nature of everybody."
From the Archives: Q&A with C Pam Zhang, author of “Are They Vampires, or Are They Just Chinese?”
Q&A with Khadijah Queen, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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Q&A with Kenji Liu, designer of the Decolonized Area Rapid Transit Map
"...The power of creativity is to change our imagination of a thing, and therefore imagine that further steps could be possible."
Q&A with Aruni Kashyap, author of The Way You Want To Be Loved
Is it possible to write in English by remaining acutely aware of and consciously borrowing from Indigenous and vernacular aesthetics?
Q&A with Alejandro Heredia, author of Loca
I’m just really inspired by writers who write about their corner of their cities and do it in a way that even a hundred years later somebody is able to connect to that place.
Q&A with Liwen Xu, author of “In the End”
Moments like these are threaded through my stories, and to me, they are the gold thread glinting in my fiction. In some ways, I’m always writing for my parents, towards my mother.
Q&A with Anna B. Moore, author of Don’t Pity the Desperate
[Myra] does not choose this purpose to start out with—it’s a path made by the omnipresent superficiality of popular culture, Twelve-Step language and rituals, and the lack of adult mentorship in her life.
Q&A with Lynne Thompson, author of Blue on a Blue Palette
"I believe anything can be said on the page. The issue may be whether the writer has the courage to say what needs to be said."
