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Mar 2023 23

Interview with Malay Roychoudhury, Poet of Hungryalism

"Residents of the area were stunned that I was being arrested for having written a poem."

Mar 2023 16

5 Questions with Robert Lopez, Author of Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure

There's an empty storefront right down the block from our apartment and it seems like a perfect spot for a bookstore. The bookstore would be called No News Today and the bestseller would be anything by David McCullough.

Mar 2023 14

Andrew Jackson’s Face is a Meme for White Supremacy

For the millions of American people committed to justice and equality, the face that sneers out at them every day from their twenty-dollars bills is the vulgar embodiment of unfreedom, injustice, racial disunity, censorship, and death.

Mar 2023 13

The Struggle Against Fossil Fuels: “Farm Bill” Politics Is Now Climate Politics

"The farm bill is probably going to be the piece of legislation in the next two years with the biggest impact on the climate and the environment.”

Mar 2023 10

5 Questions with Maggie Millner, Author of Couplets

I’ve been so inspired recently by all the lesbian bookstores in Madrid—we need more of those here in New York! Maybe I’d name mine “Lorraine,” after Lorraine Hansberry, and we’d move a lot of copies of A Raisin in the Sun.

Mar 2023 8

5 Questions with Priya Guns, Author of Your Driver Is Waiting

I’m really inspired by artists whose work screams the political.

Mar 2023 6

5 Questions with Lakiesha Carr, Author of An Autobiography of Skin

"Tracey Rose Peyton’s Night Wherever We Go and DK Nnuro’s What Napoleon Could Not Do represent two extremes of the American experience for Black people and long conversations with them both have provided more comfort and relief then they’ll probably ever know."

Mar 2023 1

5 Questions with John Sayles, Author of Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey

For Jamie MacGillivray, I read a lot of Dickens, Smollet, Fielding, and looked at Hogarth’s drawings and paintings. I think the most influential writers on me wanting to write myself were Nelson Algren, Eudora Welty and Thomas Pynchon.

Feb 2023 28

5 Questions with Margaret Randall, Author of Lupe’s Dream and other stories and Vertigo of Risk: poems

Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua). From 1962 to 1969 she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón co-edited El Corno...