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Author photo of Rumaan Alam over the cover of his book, Leave the World Behind, laid over a background image that features a banner which reads "Zell Visiting Writers Series Interviews" as well as the University of Michigan, LSA, and Helen Zell Writers Program logos.

In the Apocalypse, I hope to Die Immediately: An Interview with Rumaan Alam

There aren’t many books that I remember reading as clearly as I remember Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind. It was 2020, and I was looking for escape. This book offers that—the writing propulsive, the pace breathless, so much so that I kept sneaking away from my remote job during the day to keep reading […]

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There aren’t many books that I remember reading as clearly as I remember Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind. It was 2020, and I was looking for escape. This book offers that—the writing propulsive, the pace breathless, so much so that I kept sneaking away from my remote job during the day to keep reading

Author photo of Wendy S. Walters over the cover of her book, Multiply/Divide, laid over a background image that features a banner which reads "Zell Visiting Writers Series Interviews" as well as the University of Michigan, LSA, and Helen Zell Writers Program logos.

Balance and Disquietude: An Interview with Wendy S. Walters

Wendy S. Walters is a Creative Capital Awardee in literary nonfiction and the author of a book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande Books, 2015), named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, Huffington Post, and others. She is also the author of two books of poems, Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem, 2014) and Longer I Wait, More

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Wendy S. Walters is a Creative Capital Awardee in literary nonfiction and the author of a book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande Books, 2015), named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, Huffington Post, and others. She is also the author of two books of poems, Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem, 2014) and Longer I Wait, More

Author photo of Katie Kitamura with the cover of her new book Intimacies in the background, laid over a background image that features a banner which reads "Zell Visiting Writers Series Interviews" as well as the University of Michigan, LSA, and Helen Zell Writers Program logos.

An Interview with Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura mines the painful tension between intimacy and performance, and their beguiling slippages into each other. Kitamura’s prose—taut, yet full of surprise—is keenly attentive to the intricacies of power and language across circumstances as varied as the turbulent decolonization of an unnamed country, the agonizing days before a professional fight in Mexico, and the

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Katie Kitamura mines the painful tension between intimacy and performance, and their beguiling slippages into each other. Kitamura’s prose—taut, yet full of surprise—is keenly attentive to the intricacies of power and language across circumstances as varied as the turbulent decolonization of an unnamed country, the agonizing days before a professional fight in Mexico, and the

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Joyce Carol Oates Looks Back on Her Wide-Ranging Work Through the Years

Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific American writer of great intellectual complexity, has built her intriguing works over the course of many decades. She has published over one hundred books, including novels, short-story collections, novellas, poetry, literary criticism, reviews, and essays. Oates’s works have received the National Book Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, the PEN

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Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific American writer of great intellectual complexity, has built her intriguing works over the course of many decades. She has published over one hundred books, including novels, short-story collections, novellas, poetry, literary criticism, reviews, and essays. Oates’s works have received the National Book Award, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, the PEN

Author photo of Courtney Faye Taylor with the cover of the book Concentrate in the background laid over a background image that features a banner which reads "Zell Visiting Writers Series Interviews" as well as the University of Michigan, LSA, and Helen Zell Writers Program logos.

An Interview with Courtney Faye Taylor

Courtney Faye Taylor is a writer, visual artist, and the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was named a finalist for the 2023 NAACP Image Awards and the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards. Courtney earned her BA from Agnes Scott College

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Courtney Faye Taylor is a writer, visual artist, and the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was named a finalist for the 2023 NAACP Image Awards and the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards. Courtney earned her BA from Agnes Scott College

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