(The Obelisk Gate comes out on Tuesday and I am desperately impatient but it will be fine I swear really it's only life-changing and perfection)
N.K. Jemisin on Why—and How—to Create Diversity in Science Fiction
Surviving the Survival: Ocean Vuong on exploring fear, his family, and why turning your back on your work is a good idea.
Decolonise, not Diversify
Also, I read Pond last night. The whole thing. One night. Mind = blown to glitter bits. Pond is a debut novel that takes place entirely within the thinking layers and words of a woman who lives by herself mostly and sort of does things and sort of doesn't do things and it's all very familiar and strange and ultimately incredibly unsettling in the way that only the most unknown normalcy can be. Imagine a travelogue to someone else's dream-scape translated into your day to day. Only it's not a dream, mostly, and she's not really trying to make you comfortable.
Claire-Louise Bennett offers us a character whose vocabulary is broad and giddy, and whose interests spill far far away from the edges of this bit of her living that we are shown. It is an incredible novel, best explored over something buttery, perhaps cut with a poem or two. For texture. Excellent late summer reading.
CD Wright's Cooling Time leapt off of the used poetry shelf at me the other day, so I took it home and we have Shared Some Moments, I tell you what.
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