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Category Archives: Blog

13. Inventing an Archive

One of the first things marginalized researchers in the humanities discover is that the choices about who and what materials are important enough to include in archives, and how that material will be presented, actively works to nullify non-whiteness and queerness.

Posted byhajo4354504/07/2022Posted inBen Bateman, Blog, Shola von ReinholdTags:#blog, #noveldialogue, #season3

12. Our Bodies, Our Time Machines

I’ve become aware of the fuzziness of my experience of time. Days slide together or drift apart, making the present feel elastic and stretchy. This elasticity—part of getting older and living through a global pandemic—is also the bread and butter of time travel narratives…

Posted byhajo4354503/24/2022Posted inBlog, Charles Yu, Chris FanTags:#blog, #noveldialogue, #season3

11. A Good Day at the Old Sweatshop

How can a narrative locked in place register the sprawl of global supply chains?

Posted byhajo4354503/10/202203/10/2022Posted inBlogTags:#blog, #noveldialogue, #season3

8. The Proper Name of Theory

What relationship, if any, does the anticolonial novel of ideas bear to the contemporary “theory novel”? Nguyen’s novels expose the tension between the two forms.

Posted byNai Kim12/23/202112/23/2021Posted inBlog, Colleen Lye, Viet Thanh NguyenTags:#blog, #ColleenLye, #noveldialogue, #season2, #VietThanhNguyen

7. On Rewriting the World

“Writing is a community practice,” Garza says. “When we write, we write with others. We always write with materials that are not our own.”

Posted byNai Kim12/09/202112/09/2021Posted inBlog, Cristina Rivera Garza, Dominique Vargas, Kate MarshallTags:#blog, #bookpodcast, #cristinariveragarza, #dominiquevargas, #katemarshall, #noveldialogue, #season2

6. On Having Something to Say

“I write only when I have something to say” — How should a Caribbean writer of my generation take this? Moreover, Is it a good advice for a teacher to give her writing students?

Posted byNai Kim11/18/202111/18/2021Posted inBlog, Caryl Phillips, Corina StanTags:#blog, #bookpodcast, #CarylPhillips, #CorinaStan, #noveldialogue, #season2

5. Writing Home

“Home is a place where I exist at every age.”

Posted byNai Kim11/04/202111/17/2021Posted inAnkhi Mukherjee, Blog, Kamila ShamsieTags:#AnkhiMukherjee, #blog, #bookpodcast, #KamilaShamsie, #noveldialogue, #season2

4. Sigrid Nunez’s Visions of Life

Novels, she says, should provide a “vision of life” rather than a “fascinated horror” of it.

Posted byNai Kim10/21/202111/17/2021Posted inBlog, Podcast, Sigrid Nunez, Tara MenonTags:#blog, #bookpodcast, #noveldialogue, #season2, #sigridnunez, #taramenon

3. Tom Perrotta’s Writerly Ethic

“Who do we, as writers, choose not to leave behind?”

Posted byNai Kim10/07/202111/17/2021Posted inBlog, Mark Wollaeger, Podcast, Tom PerrottaTags:#blog, #MarkWollaeger, #noveldialogue, #season2, #TomPerrotta

2. Jennifer Egan, Reverberator

“The novel wraps itself around you like a cocoon.”

Posted byNai Kim09/23/202111/17/2021Posted inBlog, Ivan Kreilkamp, Jennifer Egan, PodcastTags:#Clarissa, #Samuel Richardson, Blog, Ivan Kreilkamp, noveldialogue, season2

1. On the Audio Culture of Letters

I think of my favorite literary interviews as revelatory events: occasions, in Toni Morrison’s words, “when some moment or phrase flares like a lightning bug” and all participants “see it at the same time and… remember it the same way”.

Posted byNai Kim09/09/2021Posted inBlog, PodcastTags:#blog, #noveldialogue, #podcast, #review, #season2
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