“As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).” GivingAbleStrongUnderstandingAbilityMajorsPagesConnectionsPerformancesStructureDetailsCommandHopefullyImpulseLatterSmallestRequirementsExpressiveRenderingTrajectory Author:Michael Hersch
“I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened.” PeopleShouldTryingI CanRealDoneHappenedReaderPagesReal LifeImpulseRescueShould ISparesBaths Author:Damian Barr
“Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.” ThinkingLongBookPagesImpulseDivision Author:Kiese Laymon