Person to Person Safiya Sinclair Is Ready to Say Her Piece Mandana Chaffa - 10.6.2023 "Through poetry, I felt I found my authentic voice and finally had the ability to speak, and through that, I had the power eventually to author my own future." Mandana Chaffa - 10.6.2023
Person to Person James Frankie Thomas Found Himself in ‘Idlewild’ Ariél M. Martinez - 9.27.2023 "At the time that I started writing, I hadn’t yet begun to consider that I was trans." Ariél M. Martinez - 9.27.2023
Person to Person Lan Samantha Chang Revisits ‘Hunger,’ 25 Years Later Margot Livesey - 9.26.2023 "I had a piercing sense that I had completed a work encompassing everything I’d written over the seven years." Margot Livesey - 9.26.2023
Person to Person Vauhini Vara Doesn’t Know How She Does It Torsa Ghosal - 9.25.2023 "So much of the process of writing remains mysterious to me." Torsa Ghosal - 9.25.2023
Person to Person Maria Bamford Has Been Having Some Weird Thoughts Marissa Higgins - 9.21.2023 "I work in show business; it’s kind of par for the course to say you’re mental." Marissa Higgins - 9.21.2023
Person to Person Min Jin Lee Still Believes in Truth Jianan Qian - 9.6.2023 "I think my career is this series of humiliations where I feel so stupid all the time." Jianan Qian - 9.6.2023
Person to Person What Was the Crack Epidemic? Pete Riehl - 8.24.2023 "That this happened to a drug that disproportionately hit Black America is no surprise." Pete Riehl - 8.24.2023
Person to Person Alexandra Chang Is Compelled by Constraint Alexander Sammartino - 8.18.2023 "Writing really is a series of choices." Alexander Sammartino - 8.18.2023
Person to Person Sarah Thankam Mathews Wants to Remake the World Anson Tong - 8.11.2023 "We can remake the world—with sufficient numbers, sufficient persuasion, sufficient cultural work, sufficient collective political will." Anson Tong - 8.11.2023
Person to Person For Ruth Madievsky, Voice Is Everything Diana Ruzova - 7.24.2023 "The main thing I like to consume is voice-driven fiction. I always gravitate toward a voice more than anything else." Diana Ruzova - 7.24.2023
Person to Person Ann Beattie’s Characters Live in “Uneasy Coexistence” Martin Dolan - 7.24.2023 "In general, I think that there is no such thing as ordinary life." Martin Dolan - 7.24.2023
Person to Person A Portrait of the Artist as a Pregnant Woman Nicole Graev Lipson - 7.20.2023 "I think art-making is a kind of caregiving to the self." Nicole Graev Lipson - 7.20.2023
Person to Person Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream…ish Phoebe Cramer - 7.19.2023 "As a buckaroo on the autism spectrum, I’ve come to a place where I’m fine being a sort of outsider." Phoebe Cramer - 7.19.2023
Person to Person Caroline Rayner Wants to Hang Out Forever Rachelle Toarmino - 7.17.2023 "It excites me when it feels like I don't know what I’m doing." Rachelle Toarmino - 7.17.2023
Person to Person John McPhee Finds His Unending Project David Adams - 7.10.2023 "There are zillions of ideas out there—they stream by like neutrons." David Adams - 7.10.2023
Person to Person Keziah Weir Isn’t Writing About You Courtney DuChene - 6.19.2023 "Now people can do a 35-tweet thread about how their story was stolen." Courtney DuChene - 6.19.2023
Person to Person Bronwyn Fischer Weighs In on the Age-Gap Discourse Ariél M. Martinez - 6.14.2023 "Maybe I’m contributing to something that I shouldn’t be contributing to." Ariél M. Martinez - 6.14.2023
Person to Person Kathryn Ma Wants to Challenge Herself Nina Schuyler - 6.8.2023 "I wanted to do something technically difficult for me. I try to do that with every piece of writing." Nina Schuyler - 6.8.2023