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Winter 2019

Food and Migration: A Conversation with Artist Emeka Ogboh (Recipe Included)

By Michelle Johnson

Photo: Kake/Flickr Born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now dividing his time between Lagos and Berlin, Emeka Ogboh is an artist exploring migration, globalization, and colonialization through sound and...
Winter 2019

Writing Singapore: Anglophone City Poetics and the Asian Experience: A Conversation with Grace Chia

By Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Jason Eng Hun Lee

Photo: Iva Krakovic Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia, and Mother of All Questions, the short-story collection Every Moving Th...
Winter 2019

The Aesthetics of the City: A Conversation with Youssouf Amine Elalamy

By Nisrine Slitine El Mghari

Youssouf Amine Elalamy with one of his handmade graphic cards he created to accompany the written text in Tqarqīb ennāb Born in Morocco in 1961, Youssouf Amine Elalamy is a writer and...
November 2018

An Army of Spiritual Teachers: A Conversation with Alice Walker

By Erik Gleibermann

Photo: Scott Campbell. Courtesy of Joy Harris Literary Agency I’m sure it wasn’t coincidental, when I phoned Alice Walker at her northern California home in August, to find her gardening...
November 2018

Translating Alice Walker: A Conversation with Manuel García Verdecia

By Daniel Simon

Manuel with Alice / Courtesy of alicewalkersgarden.com In conjunction with Erik Gleibermann’s interview with Alice Walker that headlines the November issue of World Literature...
November 2018

“The Ephemeral Condition of Concrete Things”: A Conversation with Sergio Chejfec

By Graziano Krätli

Sergio Chejfec sits in front of an art installation of his writing titled Dissemination of a Novel. Photo: Valerie Mejer Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine writer based in New York City. Bor...
November 2018

“Art Should Make You Uncomfortable:” A Conversation with Vu Tran

By Michelle Johnson

Photo: Ulf Andersen Author of the noir novel Dragonfish, Vu Tran teaches English and fiction at the University of Chicago. Also a contributor to the collection of essays Th...
September 2018

Capturing a Musical Reaction to Literature: A Conversation with Lusterlit’s Susan Hwang & Charlie Nieland

By Michelle Johnson

Photo: Carrie Lou Performing as Lusterlit, Susan Hwang and Charlie Nieland alternate lead vocals and harmonies while supporting each other on guitar, bass, synth, traditional Korean...
July 2018

“If I Strip away Everything, What Is Left?”: A Conversation with Chris Abani

By Rob Roensch, Mary B. Gray

Photo: Claus Gretter/chrisabani.com Chris Abani is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter whose awards include the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, a Hurston/Wright Lega...
May 2018

The Big Thing: A Conversation with Masatsugu Ono

By Reid Bartholomew

photo: Kodansha (Kiyoshi Mori) Masatsugu Ono is a Japanese writer based in Tokyo and the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The water-covered grave), whi...
March 2018

Telling It Slant: A Conversation with Marilyn Nelson

By Sarah Rebecca Warren

photo: shevaun williams / shevaun williams & associates I had the privilege of sitting down with Marilyn Nelson the day before she was awarded the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Liter...
March 2018

It Is Solved by Walking: A Conversation with Writer-Flâneuse Kathleen Rooney

By Michelle Johnson

photo: joe mazza Kathleen Rooney is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including the novel O, Democracy! and the novel in poems Robinson Alone. With E...
March 2018

On Home, Belongingness, and Multicultural Britain: A Conversation with Hannah Lowe

By Jennifer Wong

photo: hayley madden Born to an English mother and a Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah Lowe is the author of Chick (2013), which celebrates the multicultural life of London and i...
January 2018

“Treasuring the Tradition of Inspired Resistance”: A Conversation with Maureen Freely

By Michelle Johnson

Maureen Freely is currently the president of English PEN and a writer, translator, and the head of the Department of English at the University of Warwick. Freely is the English translator of five n...
January 2018

Breaking Open Gates: A Conversation with Emmy Pérez

By Norma Cantú, Chelsea Rodríguez

Emmy Pérez is a Chicana poet and writer. She grew up in Santa Ana, California, and graduated from the University of Southern California. She later attended Columbia University where she...
January 2018

Memory, Literature, and Revised History: A Conversation with Jia Pingwa

By Min Yang

Jia Pingwa is a globally renowned Chinese writer who has lived through and written about major changes in Chinese society since 1978 when China launched the reform and opening-up policy. Bo...
January 2018

Playing Hopscotch in the Gaps of History: A Conversation with Eleni Kefala

By Adam J. Goldwyn

Photo: Eleni Kefala For more, read a poem by Eleni Kefala Eleni Kefala has published two volumes of poetry, Mními kai parallayés (2007; Memory and variations),...
January 2018

Redeeming Desire: A Conversation with Li-Young Lee

By Jennifer Wong

Photo © Donna Lee Born in Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee is a major poet with four collections, including The City in Which I Love You (1990), From Blos...
November 2017

Dancing Wisdom and Embodied Knowledge in African Diaspora Traditions: In Conversation with Yvonne Daniel

By Vikram Zutshi

In her landmark interdisciplinary study of African diaspora religious systems through dance performances, Yvonne Daniel considers three religious systems that rely heavily on dance behav...
November 2017

Translating Full Throttle: A Conversation with Lawrence Venuti

By Peter Constantine

Photo: Karen Van Dyck Lawrence Venuti is a leading translator of modern Italian and Catalan literature and internationally one of the most influential theorists in the field of literary translati...
November 2017

Writing as Judgment or Scream: A Conversation with Aslı Erdoğan

By Erkut Tokman

Photo by Mateusz Skwarczek After finishing a master’s degree in physics and writing her thesis on the Higgs-Boson particle, Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan (b. 1967, Istanbul) work...
November 2017

"Starving for Order": A Conversation with Ted Kooser

By Daniel Simon

Harvey Dunn, I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1926 / Courtesy South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota For more, read two new poems by Ted Kooser. While in Lincoln to attend the r...
September 2017

“We Carry Home within Us”: A Conversation with Laleh Khadivi & Sholeh Wolpé

By Persis Karim

Left to Right: Laleh Khadivi, Sholeh Wolpé, and Persis Karim joined around Karim’s kitchen table to discuss their contributions to Iranian diaspora literature. Persis Karim, a poet and the editor of...
September 2017

“Swimming through Bricks”: A Conversation with Simon Armitage

By Rob Roensch, Quinn Carpenter Weedon

Prolific poet Simon Armitage (b. 1963, Marsden, UK) is also a novelist, playwright, lyricist, librettist, translator, and author of several books of nonfiction. In this interview, conduc...
September 2017

Literature as Delayed Dialogue: A Conversation with Kike

By Paul Holzman

A family man, father of three, martial arts aficionado, and longtime acolyte of Charles Bukowski, Karl Marx, and North American crime writers, Kike is known for his crime fiction. Photo:...

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