Just because it’s nearly summer doesn’t mean it’s time for your mind to go on vacation, especially now. Here’s some essays and interviews that you should check out:
1. Julia Fierro – “The Secret to My Success? Antidepressants” (NY Times)
2. Brandon Taylor – “Being Gay vs Being Southern: A False Choice” (Lit Hub)
3. Catherine La Sota – “Late to the Party: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar” (Electric Literature)
4. Alexis P. Williams – “Interview with Aziza Barnes: A Queer Black Poet’s Quest for Liberation” (Vice)
5. Toni Morrison – “The Work You Do, The Person You Are” (The New Yorker)
6. Kaveh Akbar & Kazim Ali – “Silence and Breath: Kaveh Akbar and Kazim Ali” (Asian Americans Writers Workshop)
7. Brandon Shimoda – “The Night Cafe” (Entropy)
8. Lucie Bonvalet – “The Future of Traumatic Memories” (Catapult)
9. Porochista Khakpour – “How to Write Iranian-America, or The Last Essay” (Catapult)
10. Kate Schapira – “On Political Change, Climate Change, and the Choice to Not Have Children” (Catapult)
Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos, and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.
