Sumanth Prabhaker
You might see George Saunders’s first four books of short stories as a whole life’s creative growth compressed into a dozen years: discovering voice, developing characters, settling into themes, and guiding Continue reading →
Sometimes it’s disappointing to meet an artist you truly admire but meeting my fellow panelist Shaun Tan at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2017 only fed my admiration. No one evokes Continue reading →
Sandra Cisneros & Manuel Muñoz
Manuel Muñoz: Your new piece in Orion, “The Beautiful Unforeseen,” is a very complex essay. It starts in Mexico on a trip that you took with your parents when you were Continue reading →
Kathleen Yale
You may know Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton from her wildly popular, pioneering web comic Hark! A Vagrant, but before that success, she was another young person trying to pay off her Continue reading →
For a lot of its history, the “road trip” has conjured predominantly white, straight, masculine images (see literature from Homer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Jack Kerouac), but of course, that’s Continue reading →