The Situation in American Writing: John Warner
If we were smart, we’d all be in the app development business.
The Situation in American Writing: Porochista Khakpour
I wrote to escape and shut out much of my real world and create an alternate one, not to dialogue or participate with it in any way actually.
The Situation in American Writing: George Saunders
What fiction can do is inspire tenderness. That’s a good thing in any weather.
The Situation in American Writing: Roxane Gay
As writers, our responsibility is to write true stories, however we choose to define truth.
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The Situation in American Writing: Kio Stark
Joy is the business of art and mass action alike. Beyond taking a stand as public figures, our job is to feed imaginations, and imagination is the precondition for change.
The Situation in American Writing: Philipp Meyer
You don’t choose to be an artist. It’s something you just are. The only question is how much you are willing to sacrifice to make art.
The Situation in American Writing: Marilynne Robinson
As Americans we need to stop irrational attacks on our own government, at the same time that we find some way to hold it to the standards of dignity and integrity we and the world have a right to demand of it.
Introducing The Situation in American Writing
The Situation in American Writing: seven questions about literature, politics and identity.
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