From the green room in Alphabet City, as he prepared for his reading, sam sax was kind enough to speak to Sampsonia Way about the precarious nature of language and the power and history of madness. sax was […]
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Hanif Abdurraqib visited City of Asylum in early February to read from his new book Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, a collection of essays about A Tribe Called Quest’s rap […]
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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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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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