feminism. art. wit. happenings.
Dorothy Allison is the author of Bastard out of Carolina, Cavedweller, Trash, The Women Who Hate Me, and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure.
“Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked to me, I’ll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.”
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of the short story collections Interpreter of Maladies (winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) and Unaccustomed Earth, as well as the novel The Namesake.
“…Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me.”
