Yuka Igarashi
Yuka Igarashi is the former managing editor at Granta and was issue editor of Granta 127: Japan. She has taught fiction writing at various universities including Columbia and Parsons The New School for Design in New York.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Novel Terrors
Yuka Igarashi
‘Violence and genius and terror and mysticism reside in equal parts in the so-called heroes and so-called villains. It wells up and pervades us. We swim in it.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Kevin Brockmeier | Interview
Kevin Brockmeier & Yuka Igarashi
‘The great big real world of sensations and objects and other people’s minds is already deeply strange, but sometimes it takes a change of perspective for us to see it clearly.’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Jennifer Egan | Interview
Jennifer Egan & Yuka Igarashi
‘It wasn’t an experiment so much as a response to the need to find a way to embody the oddly shaped story I wanted to tell.’