Conversations


With Liska Jacobs at LitHub.

With Jordan Kisner at Thresholds (audio).

With Chris and Mike Howdyshell, Dan Easley, Britney J. Mongold, and Jay Zehr, on the Bingo Is Life podcast, in which we don’t talk about bingo but about my 2024 column on walking in the Harrisonburg Citizen (audio).

With Zach Powers at The Writer’s Center (video).

Discussing The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain with Arley Sorg at Clarkesworld.

A conversation with Kate Zambreno about our collaborative study, Tone, with David Naimon on the Between the Covers podcast (audio).

With Erica Cavanagh at the Chicago Review of Books.

A conversation about writing with Amina Cain, focusing on our nonfiction: my book The White Mosque and her book A Horse at Night (video).

With Megan Kakimoto at Full Stop.

With Diriye Osman at The New Inquiry.

Celebrating Kate Zambreno’s work at Columbia University (video).

With Dodie Bellamy at Full Stop.

With Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi at Full Stop.

With David Naimon on Between the Covers (audio).

With Aaron Bady and K’eguro Macharia at The New Inquiry.

With Chris Kammerud at Storyological (audio).

With Kristen Millares Young at The Rumpus.

With Kate Wolf at LARB Radio Hour (audio).

Exploring The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain with Misha Grifka Wander at Ancillary Review of Books.

Celebrating the illustrated essay collection accompanying the British Library’s exhibition on fantasy with the editors and other authors (video).

Exploring the speculative memoir with Carmen Maria Machado, Matthew Cheney, and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson at Electric Literature.

2022 Bechtel Lecture in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies (video).

Discussing The White Mosque with three Mennonite librarians on the Just Plain Wrong podcast (audio).

With Kate Zambreno at The New Inquiry.

A conversation with Carmen Maria Machado about The White Mosque, pushing the boundaries of memoir, and the poioumenon–a new word for me, which describes one of my favorite things (video).

With Greer Gilman at Uncanny Magazine.

With Amina Cain at Music and Literature.

With Safa Khatib at Words Without Borders.

With Amina Cain at Literary Hub.

With Geoff Ryman at Strange Horizons.

With Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Roland Glasser at BOMB.

With Ashon Crawley at The New Inquiry.