“There are always architects for exploitation and subjugation . . . There is no exploitation unless there are people who are quietly complicit. That is the nature of human subjugation. Complicity is a ghost haunting this story.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: historical fiction
What Is Said and What Is Unsaid: Q & A with Ellen Prentiss Campbell
Being a psychotherapist attuned me to discerning both to what is said and what is unsaid, accustomed me to seeking to understand conscious and unconscious motivation—above all, to listening. Continue reading
Features / Fiction / Interviews / Nonfiction / Translations
At Home in the Past: Q&A with Lea Singer
Writing my first novel, I felt: the past was drawing nearer, often so close, that it hurt. Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews
How Villa Became Villa: Q&A with Cameron MacKenzie
by Alice Stephens
“Scholarship is the ongoing work of clarifying the historical record. The fiction writer is after emotional truth. ” Continue reading
Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons: Q & A with Jocelyn Cullity
by Evelyn Somers
“I also wanted to write about the women who never show up in historical writing more generally. Sometimes in our histories the women disappear altogether. This mysterious—actually ridiculous—absence of women at key historical moments became crucial to me.” Continue reading
Author Features / Features / Fiction / Interviews / Poetry / Translations
A State of Dreaming: Q&A with Jasmin Darznik
by Shoba Viswanathan
” Much of the time it has to do with getting out of my own way. Somehow you have to be fiendishly devoted to your work yet untroubled by how it will be received, or whether it will be received at all.”
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