Riva Lehrer on Disability, Making Art, and Getting Rid of the Explainy Voice

by Lisa Peet

“It was such a transformative thing for me, making the point that you get a different set of words and holy shit, your perceptions just turn inside out.” Continue reading →

Mary Costello: Writing the Essential Self

by Amy Day Wilkinson

In Academy Street, plenty happens. . . . Still, one doesn’t get the feeling that plot drove the writing . . . Rather, the events spring naturally from the life of the central character, Tess Lohan. Continue reading →

Q&A with Thomas Van Essen

I think I share John Ruskin’s view that great art is fundamentally moral, in that the deep experience of it makes you a better person, although my definition of “better person” is not one that Ruskin would recognize. Continue reading →