The Millions
Claire Vaye Watkins on Bearing Witness to Loss
Watkins talks about loss without trying to tidy it up, and the interview keeps circling the harder question underneath: what does it mean to witness damage honestly on the page?
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Hanya Yanagihara on Privacy and Authorial Distance
Yanagihara keeps biography at arm's length, and that distance becomes the subject: how much of a writer does a reader really need in order to meet the work?