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Congrats to @DavidNaimon for 10 years of BETWEEN THE COVERS! Grateful for this archive of deep dives. These discussions have taught me that there are many ways to write, to question, to read, to grieve, to remember, to live, and to imagine. Here’s a thread of some favorites:
“Words are difficult. They can turn against you when you try to use them, and all I wanted to do was not take for granted this complex nature of words.”
- Fernanda Melchor, Between the Covers
- Fernanda Melchor, Between the Covers
“It’s not the wound, it’s the scar. The wound heals, but the scar is what reminds you. The scar is what you carry and it’s what tells you the story again and again and again.”
- Natalie Diaz : Postcolonial Love Poem, pt. 2, Between the Covers @NatalieGDiaz
- Natalie Diaz : Postcolonial Love Poem, pt. 2, Between the Covers @NatalieGDiaz
"But I want. I want to. I want to address that vacancy. I want to address the need to find meaning and and and vividness and texture for my life."
-Diane Williams, Between the Covers
-Diane Williams, Between the Covers
“I had to grapple with a kind of problem that I have—or a pathology, or a strange tendency—which is to fight with every book that I write, to believe in its relevance, to fight a sort of creeping futility that I experience.”
- Miriam Toews, Between the Covers
- Miriam Toews, Between the Covers
“There are different points in every human being’s life where we can’t spare a thought for likability and I’m interested in those moments.”
- Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Between the Covers @chayab77
- Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Between the Covers @chayab77
“The process of writing the book has to somehow change me. I have to somehow grow into that writer-self that was ahead and then raise the bar again.”
- Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Between the Covers @avandervliet
- Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Between the Covers @avandervliet
“People who built houses, people who would string electric wires through a house and bring lights, people who were nurses . . . I saw those people doing what they did in the world, and I took the same feeling and responsibility to words.”
- Nikky Finney, Between the Covers
- Nikky Finney, Between the Covers
“I wanted it to feel lived. I didn’t want it to feel like an art object, I wanted it to feel like an experience.”
- Sheila Heti : How Should a Person Be?, Between the Covers
- Sheila Heti : How Should a Person Be?, Between the Covers
“People tell people who are grieving that things will be better, that there’s some small solace & yet—no solace. The truth is that things can’t ever be normal again, that even the desire for normality is a kind of depraved monstrous desire.”
-Forrest Gander, Between the Covers
-Forrest Gander, Between the Covers
“If you say that plot must be based on conflict, you’re limiting your view of the world very severely and, in a sense, you are making a political statement that life is conflict and nothing else.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering the Craft, Between the Covers
- Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering the Craft, Between the Covers
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