Lynn, Loretta, “Loretta Lynn Didn’t Pretty Things Up” New York Times, October 4, 2022

Interview by Jon Pareles “The more you hurt, the better the song is,” she told me in a 2016 New York …

Erdrich, Louise, “Tales of Burning Love” The Art of Fiction Interview with (Harper Perennial 1996)

I think I meant that grand ideas kill first efforts. Begin with something in your range. Then write it as …

Fuentes, Carlos “On Mexican Time” A New Time for Mexico (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1996)

Sun, solitude, soil. I remember a great lecture by Gaos in which he spoke of art as truth transformed by …

Fuentes, Carlos “On Mexican Time” A New Time for Mexico (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1996)

In any case, voyage and narrative are twins because both signify a displacement, an abandonment of the place, the plaza, …