MASHA HAMILTON | Part of what keeps me interested in fiction is to write to find out the end myself.
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Shawn Vestal’s Memory Castles Made of Lego
SHAWN VESTAL | Remembering something is not all that different from inventing it.
Changing Places: Ich Bin Ein Berliner
MELODY NIXON | We painted lipstick on our lips and watched businessmen in suits flip open Die Welt, grazing the top of the newspaper with their line of sight, conspicuously shy in their observations of two foreign frauen.
Changing Places: Mining Mongolia
MELODY NIXON | I hadn’t come to Mongolia seeking an education in the politics of development, but the signs of rapid, double-edged growth were everywhere.
Progress on the Subject of Interview, with Leslie Ullman
LESLIE ULLMAN | This is how others’ poems have affected me — through the action of their images, their minds’ eyes superimposed on my own.
Changing Places: The New Siberia
MELODY NIXON | But head to the heart of Siberia, an easy enough thing to do as this recent New York Times article describes, and you won’t be able to feed all your Soviet-porn fetishes.
The Question of Home: An Interview with Nicola Waldron
NICOLA WALDRON | Your forebears hand down land — something of both use and beauty. A place to live.
Ten Questions on Writing and New York City: An Interview with Phillip Lopate
PHILLIP LOPATE | I have always resisted this scenario about the death of New York, or the idea that it had lost its soul, or any of that. … New York is too complex, too various, to die or to lose its soul.
