The personal appetite is political
I met Keila Vall de la Ville in New York in 2024, when I was on tour with my book. We are both Venezuelan, immigrant writers that have made the U.S. their home for a long time. But the reality is that I felt like I already knew her. It’s unfair, and wrong, to presume […]
Minerva – Keila Vall de la Ville
Vall de la Ville writes about Venezuela’s decline beautifully and honestly, just as she writes about Minerva’s changing identity as an immigrant
We are all formed to some extent by the language, religion and customs in which we grew up, yes. But I am less interested in the ways culture makes people different from one another than I am in the ways we are all the same. It’s only by looking past cultural differences to what we humans have in common that I can get to the level of empathy and understanding I need to turn a character into a real human being.
Concentric Macroscope – Kelly Krumrie
Geometry creates a concentric circle, but language splinters.
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I think that a lot of what I was trying to do in the book is to explore a sense of play within a knowledge that things probably won’t get better.
I was trying to capture something I feel very acutely in modern life, which is: if we don’t work intentionally at keeping connections and keeping people close, there is a drift.
Why aren’t more reviews of experimental literature commensurately experimental in form?
“Homicide: Life on the Street” and the Perverse Pleasures of Copaganda
How do we come to terms with the undeniable pleasures of this blatantly ideological genre?