Now Featuring: Carmen Maria Machado

” . . . you can’t write for everyone, so you have to just write for yourself. Ideally, you’re writing for history and across time. I have readers reading my books in languages I don’t speak. One day, I’m going to die. I hope it’s a long time from now, but I’ll be dead and people can still read my books in the way you can read a book from somebody who died two hundred years ago, and you’re still having your half of the conversation with that artist even though they’re long gone, even if they couldn’t possibly conceive of you as a person. The thing about reading is that you get to engage across these seemingly impossible barriers, including death.”

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Read the rest of the interview here.