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Consider it the best of times.
Through My Eyes: An Interview with Christine Lincoln
Our associate editor, Caitlin Youngquist, spoke with Christine Lincoln, “her voice gentle and
heartening, about ‘What’s Necessary to Remember When Telling a Story,’ her story from issue no. 219; about her debut collection of
short-stories, Sap Rising; and about
her thoughts on race and literature in America, both today and as it
was for her growing up one of the only black children in her classrooms.
Every so often, she’d pause midsentence, near tears, she’d say, because
she hadn’t shared this with anyone before.”
Dialogues: An Interview with Aaron Stern and Jordan Sullivan
Read our managing editor Nicole Rudick’s conversation with Stern and Sullivan from June 2016 about their project, Dialogues. Rudick also recommended the second installment of Dialogues in this week’s Staff Picks column.
John Steinbeck was born on this day in 1902.
You know on my left hand on the pad just below the little finger, I have a dark brown spot. And on my left foot in a corresponding place I have another one almost the same. One time a Chinese, seeing the spot on my hand, became very much excited and when I told him about the one on my foot he was keenly interested. He said that in Chinese palmistry the hand spot was a sign of the greatest possible good luck and the one on my foot doubled it. These spots are nothing but a dark pigmentation. I’ve had them from birth. Indeed, they are what is known as birthmarks. But the reason I brought it up is this. For the last year and a half, they have been getting darker. And if I am to believe in my spots, this must mean that the luck is getting better. And sure enough I have Elaine [Mrs. John Steinbeck] and what better luck could there be. But the spots continue to darken and maybe that means that I am going to have a book, too. And that would be great good luck, too.
Read the entirety of his Art of Fiction interview from issue no. 48 (Fall 1969) here.
Last night, PBS’s American Masters series debuted “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” the first-ever feature documentary on the writer.
To celebrate this, listen to the 1988 recording of The Paris Review‘s founder, George Plimpton, interviewing Angelou.