Added to playlist01:46New “Math is a very creative subject.”Natasha BrownWhat Math and Language Have in Common
Added to playlist13:13 “All of the money that changes hands in the book industry is actually just people paying to belong to a class of people who read books. That is something I’m worried about and feel implicated in.”5 Writerson Depicting Social Class
Added to playlist01:31 “You won’t make it, and the money is bad, and you’ll be divorced, and you’ll lose your teeth. But don’t ever stop.”Tomas EspedalAdvice to the Young
Added to playlist31:10 “I decided to write for revenge. Against the injustice. I wanted to show what I had inside me.”Leïla SlimaniWhat Are We If Not a Story
Added to playlist25:15 “It's the idea that you have a seed - out of which the rest grows."Ursula Andkjær OlsenPoetry of Tentacles and Threads
Added to playlist09:57 "You possess the world by putting a name on it, and then you begin to understand it.”Jamaica KincaidGardening Is a Kind of Colonialism
Added to playlist01:46 “I have three kids. None of them read. And I have books everywhere in my home and I buy them books, and I read to them every night. It doesn't stick.” Alex SchulmanForbid children to read
Added to playlist03:17 “For our children, we have to force ourselves to be optimistic.”Leïla SlimaniWe Have to Believe in Reason
Added to playlist26:23 “I would arrange stones in a yard and pretend they were my audience. I would read Shakespeare, and whoever was in my schoolbook would read it to them.”Jamaica KincaidHow Reading Formed Me
Added to playlist04:59 “The moon exerts a physical fascination on us. I live in a village and on long nights lit by the full moon, we can’t sleep.”Péter NádasWe Can’t Sleep When the Moon is Full
Added to playlist07:16 “There is this illusion that grief is something pretty and neat. It’s not. It’s more like a wild animal. Like a pain you never imagined possible.”Naja Marie AidtEven Still These Poems Fill Me With Rage