Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
A Study in Character: Dedra Johnson on the “Real” Voice in Fiction
“I’ve always liked the idea of the unreliable narrator, or the multi-layered narrator, where you understand more than the narrator is telling you, and so I very intentionally did that with her. Sandrine being a child made it possible to do that.”
Crafting Connection: Christina Davis Reaches Out
“I think I’ve always been fascinated by freedom and the fear of freedom — and, among poets, the quest for some containment or some instruction, the quest for some criterion, for some way to know whether what we’re speaking is correct, or appropriate, or arriving somewhere.”
Creating the Chorus: Joshua Kryah and the Question of Faith
“…the poem that is crafted as well as it can be crafted sometimes winds up just ‘saying’ something; it’s saying this about language, or it’s saying this about faith, or it’s saying this about the Beloved, or the condition of love. Whereas right now what I want to do is speak. I want, not to pronounce, but to let the poems go further than they usually have, or that I’ve allowed them to go.”
Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor
Posted: November 25, 2008
Tags: Marilynne Robinson, Yusef Komunyakaa, fiction, James Joyce, Bob Kaufman
“It’s about fifty percent based on certain things I know from real life, and about fifty percent made up out of nothing, just out of daydreaming. I think that’s the way it should be. This is not memoir, this is not autobiography, this is not confession. It’s fibbing. It’s making things up.”
Exploring Transition: Aryn Kyle
“I think a lot of my writing begins with something I lived or something I saw, but then develops from the question, ‘What would it have been like to live through that experience if I was this person, or that person, or if this had happened rather than that?’”
