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.
The Situation In American Writing: Steve Himmer
If we write about the past or the future, even an imaginary past or unlikely future, we’re always really writing about the present.
The Situation in American Writing: Christopher Bollen
Rarely can literature keep pace with a revolution.
The Situation in American Writing: Dana Spiotta
Maybe art, on some level, is about dissatisfaction with the given.
The Situation in American Writing: Siddhartha Deb
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.