I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.
As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I admire in that style tend to do omniscient narration.
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.