“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.” WorldWayWritingYearsKindPersonsIdeasStoriesLastsGuyWhiteFictionCrazyMiddleEnlightenmentThirdsAll KindsGenreBelongingSixtySeventiesMiddle AgedCanonCrazy ThingsEpitomeWhite GuysThird PersonBrash Author:Emily Barton
“Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.” ThinkingKnowsWorldHorse Author:Emily Barton
“I think about the collaboration between writers and readers, but I also think about the collaboration between all the writers in a generation or in a country or across time contributing to this massive project of documenting and reimagining our world.” ThinkingWorldCountryGenerationsReaderProjectsMassiveOur WorldCollaborationContributingReimagining Author:Emily Barton
“It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantGivingWritingHumansKindDifficultCommunityHuman BeingsSpaceActiveEngagedCompassionateImaginative Author:Emily Barton
“Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering some kind of agreement between those things is a continual, and for me, and ever-changing challenge.” WorldKindImaginationChallengesDemandInfiniteAgreementFinite Author:Emily Barton
