• Global Voices,  Interviews,  Translation

    Global Voices Interviews *Hungary* Kinga Tóth & Timea Balogh in conversation with LIT’s JP Apruzzese

     

    The Hungarian version of this interview is forthcoming in Aprokrif in early 2021.

     

    In Kinga Tóth’s world everything is alive and moving and coalescing at each moment. Separation and disconnection are notions she considers unnatural in the natural world. In her work, the multimedia artist and poet captures what most of us neglect to see – not so much the interconnectedness of everything – which suggests the possibility of disconnection – but rather the relentless and organic becoming of everything into one living body that contains all animate and inanimate life.

  • Global Voices,  Interviews,  Translation

    Global Voices Interviews *Croatia* Marko Pogačar & Andrea Jurjević

    In conversation with JP Apruzzese

     

     

    Reading Marko Pogačar’s poetry is like walking into an empty field only to realize that it is teeming with life. Things begin to crawl up through the surface and emerge from the sky and become more real, more important, more meaningful, more consequential the further we allow him to guide us through this uncertain world, which we soon learn is our own. Perhaps his shift in vision comes from being a child witness to the violent fracturing of his world – what was once Yugoslavia – where the promise of unity,

  • Interviews,  LIVE with LIT

    Kristen Roupenian on Writing and Getting Your MFA, Interviewed by LaVonne Roberts

    Kristen Roupenian will be interviewed on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.

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    “Cat Person” was published by The New Yorker on Monday, December 4th, 2017, and by that Friday, it was the most-read piece of fiction of all time on the magazine’s website. It earned its author – who was then completing a writing fellowship in Ann Arbor, Michigan – global fame, quickly followed by a seven-figure, two-book deal.

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    I read 4.5 million views.

  • Events,  LIVE with LIT

    Deb Olin Unferth LIVE

    JOIN US TODAY, APRIL 28 AT 7:30 p.m.

    For the third installment of LIT Magazine’s newest series, LIVE with LIT, where book reviews come to life!

    We all know by now, the cruelty of slaughterhouses and the inhumane treatment of animals all around the world, but have you ever thought of what it’d be like to see the world through the eyes of a chicken? Find out tonight when LaVonne Roberts interviews Deb Olin Unferth author of, Barn 8, a novel centered on the topic of industrial farming and the risks of ranking human life,

  • Interviews,  Translation

    Global Voices Interviews *Poland* Bronka Nowicka and Katarzyna Szuster in conversation with LIT’s JP Apruzzese

    The Polish version of this interview appeared in Biuro Literackie on 23 March 2020

     

    Every so often a writer comes along who shows us what literature can and perhaps is meant to do — offering not so much a different perspective as a different way of seeing. A writer whose work inhabits a space undetermined by convention, trends, topics of current interest, unafraid to put aside the noise of daily life and explore the unnoticed – unseen because ignored – life that is nevertheless fully within our grasp.