At the Awl, Kate Christensen and I discuss her latest novel, The Astral, and many other things, including cheating hearts, failed marriages, bad therapy, male muses, inner dicks, and (briefly) her next book, Gin on the Lanai. “I write about people wrestling with various internal conflicts in ways that ripple outwards and cause more external conflicts,” she says. “Repressed, obedient, . . .
“All autobiographies are, in part, lies,” says Touré, who sees Manning Marable’s “more complete and unvarnished” new Malcolm X biography as a worthy supplement to The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
“There is a particular sort of toughness of mind to be found in American women writers — Flannery O’Connor and Dawn Powell had it — and its finest living avatar is now clearly Paula Fox.” — Gerald Howard, 2001
“I used to want to be like June Miller when I was a teenager, because she sounded so beautiful and so seductive and so dangerous… I wanted to be like someone who never wrote anything.”