“Language doesn’t just exist on the page … It’s about how you embody it” How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair is a poetic memoir about growing up as a Rastafari woman in Jamaica and how words and writing empowered her voice. Sinclair joins us to talk about the literary connections in her poetry, shedding light […]
“I love finishing reading a book and thinking, I feel privileged to have read that, I feel dignified. I feel like that book sort of thought of me as sacred … I want to write the kind of books that I most love to read.” From Paul Harding, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Tinkers, comes […]
“I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest Why, in the age of the spoiler alert, are we so obsessed with stories of inevitable tragedy? We know the boat sinks, she drinks the poison, and he’s never making it out alive, but it doesn’t […]
