“Any time someone has suggested that the kind of book I was describing couldn’t or shouldn’t be pulled off, it’s made me think, I’ll show you.”

"I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, being in love, and becoming a writer—and how that rush feels when these things are pursued all at once, with great abandon."

Rachel Harrison’s sculptures don’t think for us. They are more like an allegory, or a theater, of thinking.

Maggie Nelson revisits Darcey Steinke's groundbreaking novel, Suicide Blonde, published twenty-five years ago.