Literary Matters
On writing, teaching, and defeating the “shitbird” of self-doubt in this conversation with Philip Schultz.
The Yale Review
Five questions with Jenny Xie on memory, migration, and poetry: “the poems [try] to thin the membrane between the living and the dead.”
Elle
Shelf Life with Elizabeth Acevedo: the author of Clap When You Land and Inheritance takes Elle’s literary survey.
LitHub
Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City, speaks with Jane Ciabattari on writing about the forgotten women in Mao’s inner circle.
NPR
Vanessa Hua speaks with NPR about Forbidden City, a novel about a teenage girl at the start of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Oprah Daily
Elizabeth Acevedo wants young women of color to be represented tenderly and with love.
The Guardian
An interview with Deesha Philyaw: “‘I wanted to challenge the church’s obsession with sex.”
For The Love Podcast
Tune in to this episode of Jen Hatmaker’s podcast for her conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama.
The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna joins TYR for a conversation on suffering, trauma, and resilience.
People
Amy Bloom sits down to share her journey after her husband, Brian, chose to die by assisted suicide.