Morgan Jerkins on Letting Your Mind Run to the Surreal
At Time, Morgan Jerkins discusses her new novel, Caul Baby, a story set in Harlem that has elements of both the fantastical and the familiar. “I...
You Must Be Middle-Aged and Jaded to Ride the Torrent River
“Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark” by Elizabeth McCracken They had come to Galveston, the boy and his fathers, to look at the ocean and chaw on...
You Must Be Middle-Aged and Jaded to Ride the Torrent River
“Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark” by Elizabeth McCracken They had come to Galveston, the boy and his fathers, to look at the ocean and chaw on...
I Work in a Bookstore. Why Am I Still Shelving “Mein Kampf”?
When Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would no longer be publishing six of Dr. Seuss’s books which have aged problematically, the bookstore I work at in...
Rosebud Ben-Oni Thinks You Should Consider Writing a Poem
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This...
I Work in a Bookstore. Why Am I Still Shelving “Mein Kampf”?
When Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would no longer be publishing six of Dr. Seuss’s books which have aged problematically, the bookstore I work at in...
Rosebud Ben-Oni Thinks You Should Consider Writing a Poem
In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This...
We Become the Stories We Tell: The Millions Interviews Kirstin Valdez Quade
Few debut story collections feel as accomplished as Kirstin Valdez Quade’s Night at the Fiestas from 2015. “I’m lucky to know a lot of really good,...
Floating in Time with John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman has been my most important teacher, though I didn’t attend any of his courses. I still think of the time I first read...
For Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Story of the Universe Is Also the Story of Blackness
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s book The Disordered Cosmos is a book we’ve been waiting for for a long time: a science book, directed at Black folks, connecting...
