Pathos

Pathos: Diane Williams

by

Writing has given me my life! No negative effects.

Pathos: Chris Gethard

by

It would be impossible for me to describe how out of the scope of my intelligence this question is. I write stories about herpes scares and getting colonics.

Pathos: Maggie Nelson

w/

As always, I just kind of slither around, investigating the murk in between.

Pathos: Jonathan Ames

by

Being a writer is like being a cockroach — there’s a lot of competition, though one rarely sees a skinny cockroach.

Pathos: Amelia Gray

w/

Perhaps it is more correct to say that the truth of one’s self, not one’s condition, is related to the truth of one’s writing.

Pathos: Andrew Gallix

w/

Literature is the space of contradiction and ambiguity, and that’s what interests me.

Pathos: Lars Iyer

w/

Our time is always apocalyptic, and we are each responsible for the apocalypse. The literary task lies in marking this ‘end of times’ in our work.