The Situation in American Writing: Justin Taylor
I think our current economic system is a shambles and a sham. We’re all making do as best we can.
The Situation in American Writing: Geoff Dyer
When my latest book got copy edited and type-set, spelling and punctuation were fully Americanized — and it just didn’t work. I had to accept, albeit a little grudgingly, what an English writer I am.
The Situation in American Writing: Alexander Chee
Here in America we are like a people asleep and dreaming on top of something we both know and don’t know is an enormous weapon aimed at the whole world, including every one of us.
The Situation in American Writing: Steve Almond
Literature’s essential moral duty is to make us feel more than we did before, to induce the radical empathy that helps us imagine the suffering and exaltation of other human beings.
The Situation in American Writing: Victor LaValle
The individual is a lie. Or, rather, a noble ideal. I don’t believe such a being exists, Enlightenment be damned.
The Situation in American Writing: Darin Strauss
Writers all have their perfect reader, their imaginary bibliomanic, a snufalupagus in bifocals.
The Situation in American Writing: Lars Iyer
America seems to be everywhere; we are living in an American reality. Which makes me want to read anything but American fiction, however ignorant this sounds.
The Situation in American Writing: Danielle Evans
In life and in writing, there is no such thing as a person without context.
The Situation in American Writing: T.C. Boyle
In the end, art is art and the world is the world.
The Situation in American Writing: Maud Newton
If I have a creed, it’s doubt.