Ethan Michaeli discusses his experience working for The Chicago Defender, his research process, and his thoughts on the future of the newspaper in the age of the Internet and lightning-fast information.
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In this Writer’s Block Q&A, novelist Peter Ho Davies discusses the reclamation of language and the role that it plays in shaping identity.
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Novelist and short story author Edwidge Danticat discusses her literary influences, her conceptions of joy, and the women in her stories with Aster(ix) Journal and Sampsonia Way.
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Derek Palacio discusses the process of turning a novella into a novel, his obsessions as a writer, and his feelings about Cuba’s future.
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Author Peter Ho Davies speaks about the question of appropriation in fiction, the tension between how one sees themselves and how others perceive them, and the value of even flawed representations in writing and in pop culture.
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“I was writing about Cubans I knew…the ones who are not just separated from Cuba or distanced from their heritage, but ones who are growing up outside of the familiar Cuban locales in America.”
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“I try to zero in on the particular lens through which they see the world, instead of portraying them as these one-dimensional poster children for suffering.”
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