“There are moments when you run up against a white wall—there’s a white man, white man, white man, white man—and the story somehow has to be uncovered.”
From our Art of Nonfiction interview with Darryl Pinckney. buff.ly/0C7aGMC
“I like to have my say, obviously. And if people would have just let me talk, some of these books wouldn’t have had to be written.”
From our Art of Nonfiction interview with Sarah Schulman. buff.ly/CugUQ7B
Our Spring issue is here—featuring interviews with Sarah Schulman and Darryl Pinckney, prose by Tao Lin and Yu Hua, poetry by Inger Christensen and Joyelle McSweeney, art by Cauleen Smith, a cover by Cecily Brown, and more. buff.ly/fGxnHCT
“One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontation.” —Richard Wilbur
“I despise concreteness in writing, but when reality is deranged in fiction, one must worry about the seams.” —Ralph Ellison
“I’ve never thought of counting words. I’d rather not know.” —Iris Murdoch
“A thing I enjoyed about math was that it was a kind of hermetic language.” —Nathaniel Mackey
“We’ve been brainwashed by the myth that fiction and poetry are more ‘creative’ than criticism or reportage, a strictly American hang-up exploited by our universities to plug their seedy little Creative Writing departments.” —Francine du Plessix Gray
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“People love to recognize; not venture. The former is so much more comfortable and self-flattering.” —Jean Cocteau
“What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.” —Maya Angelou
“A principal task of art is to strengthen the adversarial consciousness.” —Susan Sontag
“My imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.” —Kazuo Ishiguro
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“It’s the most exciting moment when you discover life in what you’ve created.” —Mario Vargas Llosa
“Repetition is, I might say, a way of insisting that every story contains many stories inside it.” —Elias Khoury
“I think of it as an invitation. It sets up a question for the readers. Am I a part of this ‘we’?” —Nathaniel Mackey
“My job is not to give answers or to find solutions, but to ask questions, to testify in a human situation.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
“If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.” —James Baldwin
“Repetition is, I might say, a way of insisting that every story contains many stories inside it.” —Elias Khoury
“I think of it as an invitation. It sets up a question for the readers. Am I a part of this ‘we’?” —Nathaniel Mackey
“My job is not to give answers or to find solutions, but to ask questions, to testify in a human situation.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun
“I don’t know why I write when I do or why I’m silent.” —Henri Cole
“There’s always that first storytelling impulse: I want to tell you something … ” —Grace Paley
“I learned a lot from reading Beckett, naturally, and Thomas Bernhard—that peculiar tension between misanthropy and compassion that always lands in the right place. I like sentences that express more than one thing.” —Gary Indiana
