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Claire Saffitz
in conversation with Johanna Zwirner
“I don’t think that it’s impossible to live a full life without cooking, but if you want to eat well, you have to cook.”
Kyle Chayka
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“We realized that living your life on the internet kind of sucks.”
Jonathan Crary
in conversation with Keegan Brady
“The humanities are in the process of either elimination or repackaging into revenue-generating digital enterprises.”
Jefferson Hack
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“I think the future’s invented more by mistakes than it is by design.”
Volume 10
Volume 10: On Narrative
By Johanna Zwirner
“There is no more mysterious force than the act of storytelling.”
Entries
Mary Gaitskill
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“I didn’t know how to be socially, but I understood sex.”
Olivia Laing
in conversation with Keegan Brady
“Critique is a tool for understanding, but it’s not the end of the process.”
Garrett Bradley
in conversation with Zora Simpson Casebere
“I’m most interested in making form work harder and in service of subject matter.”
Ben Lerner
in conversation with Zoë Hitzig
“Like a worm or octopus, a novel can have more than one heart.”
Doreen St. Felix
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“I love the idea of following one mind as it bobs and weaves around.”
Lynne Tillman
in conversation with Sophie Poole
“I’ve never felt quite like a woman because I disobeyed.”
Brandon Taylor
in conversation with Johanna Zwirner
“People betray themselves and others all the time.”
Samuel R. Delany
in conversation with Keegan Brady
“Goethe remarked, back in the 18th century, that a man of 50 knows no more than a man of 20; they just know different things.”
Vivian Gornick
in conversation with Sophie Poole
“I am one of those feminists who concentrates on what we did accomplish rather than what we didn’t.”
Lorrie Moore
in conversation with Johanna Zwirner
“Novelists are always living in an alternative universe. One walks back and forth through a gossamer curtain.”
Dennis Cooper
in conversation with Ryan Mangione
“I was already the enemy to a lot of the activists, because I wasn’t representing gays in a positive way.”
Volumes
Volume 10
On Narrative
Volume 9
On AIDS
Volume 8
On Semiotext(e)
Volume 7
Conversations at Karma II
Volume 6
On Process
Volume 5
On Writing
Volume 4
On Postmodernism
Volume 3
Conversations at Karma
Volume 2
On Architecture
Volume 1
On L’informe
Volume 0
Interviews 1-10