July 29, 2019
Interview with Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja teaches writing in prisons and universities. She is the 2019 UNESCO Fellow in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, a Leverhulme Research Fellow in writing and […]
April 12, 2019
“Rape is Not Just a Girl Problem”: A Conversation With Melissa Ostrom
Melissa Ostrom has written two YA novels, The Beloved Wild (Feiwel & Friends, March 2018) and Unleaving (Feiwel & Friends, March 2019). Her writing has also appeared in The Florida […]
January 9, 2018
That Never Happened
The memory came back to me today while I was washing dishes and privately fuming over a Facebook thread. A Facebook thread! Such a trivial thing to get worked up […]
December 13, 2017
Power and Powerlessness in Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person
In addition to how Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person” (the New Yorker short story that has recently gone viral) resonates with the #MeToo movement, what struck me about it was the nuance of […]