An Interview with Anjali Enjeti
by Hasanthika Sirisena
Hasanthika Sirisena and Anjali Enjeti discuss how Enjeti researched, crafted, and published her debut novel, The Parted Earth, out now from Hub City Press.
Hasanthika Sirisena and Anjali Enjeti discuss how Enjeti researched, crafted, and published her debut novel, The Parted Earth, out now from Hub City Press.
“Manning and Som’s work don’t feel brave necessarily in subject matter—a well-established queer literature exists—but in their refusal to pander to their literary audience, to provide anything that looks like false intimacy.” Hasanthika Sirisena on our assumptions about interiority and representing queer experiences in short fiction.
“Wortman-Wunder’s stories never completely implicate or exculpate the protagonists”: Hasanthika Sirisena on Emily Wortman-Wunder’s debut collection, Not a Thing to Comfort You, winner of the Iowa Short Story Prize.
“Reading—and rereading—Lisa Lenzo’s work, I realized what I’m sensing disappearing from the American literary landscape.” Hasanthika Sirisena reviews Lisa Lenzo’s latest collection, Unblinking, out now from Wayne State University Press.
“What’s a good fabulist to do when every day the world offers as reality, posits as entirely normal, the surreal images of our nightmares?”: Hasanthika Sirisena reviews Ramona Ausubel’s latest collection, Awayland, out now from Riverhead Books.
A highlight of 2018 AWP Conference panels and events featuring our recent contributors.
“The work of being a writer involves a continual examination of one’s work, one’s own self, as well as one’s biases, in relationship to the wider world”: Kaitlin Solimine chats with Hasanthika Sirisena about her debut novel, Empire of Glass, out now from Ig Publishing.
“I definitely find myself drawn to stories. Short stories have such an impact and I love that this can result from one deftly delivered blow or from creating a cacophony”: Celeste Ng chats with Hasanthika Sirisena about her debut collection, The Other One.
