The Situation

The Situation in American Writing: Dana Spiotta

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Maybe art, on some level, is about dissatisfaction with the given.

The Situation in American Writing: Siddhartha Deb

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Literature has been sleeping on the job so long, especially in the neoliberal-Anglo-American world, that I’m surprised it chose to wake up at all.

The Situation in American Writing: Aimee Bender

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I don’t want to think that just because I am a writer I have things to say on all important topics.

The Situation in American Writing: Laura van den Berg

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Literature — American or otherwise — is always dead or dying. And yet somehow we go on.

The Situation in American Writing: Gary Shteyngart

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I’m totally an individual! I don’t belong to any organization. I’m even canceling Netflix.

The Situation in American Writing: John Warner

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If we were smart, we’d all be in the app development business.

The Situation in American Writing: Porochista Khakpour

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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

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What fiction can do is inspire tenderness. That’s a good thing in any weather.

The Situation in American Writing: Roxane Gay

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As writers, our responsibility is to write true stories, however we choose to define truth.

The Situation in American Writing: Kio Stark

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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.