Conversations

Explorations of invention. How experience, perception, and insight become the thing we call art.

Malak Mattar, My Mother (detail), 2017, oil on canvas

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Writing to Remember the Tulsa Race Massacre: A Conversation with Rilla Askew and Clemonce Heard

During Memorial Day weekend 1921, an armed white mob burned and pillaged the ten-block Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood, known as America’s Black Wall Street. A conspiracy of silence followed. Jennifer Kwon Dobbs’s conversation with award-winning writers Rilla Askew and Clemonce Heard took place over Zoom on November 17, 2021, almost six months after the massacre’s centennial. They focus on community responsibilities to this history, creative process, and the continuing work of racial reconciliation.

Beyond the Cocktail-Party Version: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison

Conversation by Yvonne Conza

On Make It Scream, Make It Burn, the latest book by Leslie Jamison, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams.

For the Record: Conversations with Ukrainian Writers

Blog post by Askold Melnyczuk
This series of intimate wartime conversations between Melnyczuk and an expanding roster of Ukrainian writers appears in collaboration with Arrowsmith Press and the Ukrainian poet and filmmaker Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko. Introduction: The Conversations: Iya Kiva Borys and Liudmila Khersonsky (with M...
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