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The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz
Evelyn Ch’ien
‘The world tends to give us pieces, and then in our imagination, because of our desire and because of our need, we make them whole.’
Adam Thirlwell | Interview
Adam Thirlwell & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I suppose it’s that word hyper that I was after: I was trying to find a form for a kind of hyper energy or anxiety.’
Ali Akbar Natiq | Interview
Ali Akbar Natiq & Ollie Brock
‘No character in my stories is an ideal person; they are mere human beings who can either be oppressors or oppressed, or sometimes both at the same time.’
Rajesh Parameswaran | Interview
Rajesh Parameswaran & Yuka Igarashi
‘I could tell you that love and violence are basic forces interwoven through all of nature and human affairs, and that’s why I mix the two.’
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
‘They’: Stalin’s Polish Élite
Teresa Toranska
‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’
Don DeLillo | Interview
Don DeLillo & Yuka Igarashi
‘The stories are representative of one slice of mind. The novels are mind, body, day and night, and what I ate for lunch.’
P.D. Mallamo | Interview
P. D. Mallamo & Roy Robins
‘Writing and reading in third-person present is like a high-speed drive through Nevada at two a.m.: incredibly invigorating and somewhat dangerous.’
Moscow Women
Carola Hansson & Karin Lidén
‘She’s young, then suddenly she’s old, and she’s buried without knowing why she ever lived.’
Letters From Two Exit Strategists
Jacob Newberry & Vanessa Manko
‘I feel like I’ll spend a great many years unravelling whatever is being stored inside of me just now.’
Ian Teh | Interview
Ian Teh & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’
