What does it mean for a novel to think globally? And can a global novel concerned with the macro movements of capital and labor still exist in the form of a bildungsroman? This conversation between Lydia Kiesling and Megan Ward takes up questions of form and political consciousness in the novel, globality and rootedness, capitalismContinue reading “8.1 Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward (CH)”
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7.4 Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song (RB)
Omar El Akkad joins critic Min Hyoung Song for a gripping conversation that interrogates fiction’s relationship to the real. Before he became a novelist, Omar was a journalist, and his experiencing reporting on (among other subjects) the war on terror, the Arab Spring, and the Black Lives Matter movement profoundly shapes his fiction. His firstContinue reading “7.4 Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song (RB)”
7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH)
Brandon Taylor practices moral worldbuilding in his fiction—that means an essential piece of these worlds is the “real possibility that someone could get punched in the face.” Brandon, author of the novels Real Life and The Late Americans, joins Stephanie Insley Hershinow for a wide-ranging, engrossing, and often hilarious conversation about the stakes of theContinue reading “7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH)”
