In this interview, author Lori Jakiela discusses Pittsburgh’s literary community, her writing process, the “particular kind of truth” in memoir, and why her working-class background is important for her career.
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Blogger Orlando Pardo Lazo reflects on the recent passing of renowned Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá who died in a bizarre car accident in July. Months before his death, Payá had received death threats and had survived another inexplicable car accident.
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In this interview conducted at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, poet Angela Jackson discusses the importance of being a curious cultural historian, the writing of Where I Must Go, and the way that Jackson reaches the universal through the hyper-specific.
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In this week’s Corkscrew writer Horacio Castellanos Moya explains the effects that Spain’s financial crisis will have on Latin American industry, development, and immigration.
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In this week’s Blind Chess Tienchi Martin-Liao examines the continuing effect the 1942 Yan’an Talks on Literature and Art have had on Chinese intellectuals seventy years later.
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In this week’s Night Watch Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno traces the history of violence in Venezuela from the turn of the 20th century up to the present. “Venezuela is a cocktail of poverty, injustice, resentment, a rentier mentality, and clientelistic wealth.”
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In this week’s From Egypt Hamdy El-Gazzar reflects on childhood memories of Ramadan with a short story about the tin lanterns he loved.
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