What began as a mentor-mentee relationship between the writers has become more “equal” and “relaxed.”
Category: Writing and Writers
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How Lynn Nottage and Her Daughter Are Exploring Their Relationship in Writing
Can you collaborate with your mother, a Pulitzer-winning playwright, and develop your own voice too? Ruby Aiyo Gerber wasn’t too scared to try.
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A Fashion Designer and a Writer on Unlikely Allegiances
In reading Raven Leilani’s novel, Ulla Johnson recognized a commonality in their respective crafts. Leilani did, too.
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A Connection That Began When Sarah Ruhl Made Paula Vogel Cry
Sarah Ruhl met Paula Vogel as a student in her class. Thirty years later, they still exchange first drafts.
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How Sybil Lamb Helped Imogen Binnie Shape Her Creative Identity
The “Nevada” writer came across Sybil Lamb’s illustrations two decades ago and thought, “Someone out there is doing this thing that I don’t even know how to articulate.”
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Laurie Simmons and Lena Dunham Argue About Earrings, Not Art
For mother and daughter, their relationship has been one of mutual — but not stifling — dependence.
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Why Madhur Jaffrey and Michelle Zauner ‘Fell Toward Each Other’
Throughout their careers, neither have followed a single path.
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Margaret Atwood and Mona Awad on Writing Outside the Lines
The authors met in person for the first time during their shoot for T’s Culture issue. “The photographer had to tell us to stop talking.”
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What a U.S. Poet Laureate Wants to Pass Down
Joy Harjo’s work is rooted in the Native community, a respect that’s shared by the poet and writer Layli Long Soldier.
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In a Younger Theater Artist, a Writer Finds a Kindred Ambition
Bernardine Evaristo helped start London’s Theatre of Black Women in the early 1980s when creative opportunities were slim. She sees a similar determination to “shape our own future” in the playwright and director Lynette Linton.
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New Comic Book Publisher Sees Creators as Partners, and Stockholders
DSTLRY hopes to improve the treatment of creators in the industry by offering an opportunity to reap the benefits of their characters and content.
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In Her New Show, Rita Indiana Confronts All Kinds of Ghosts
“Tu nombre verdadero” (“Your Real Name”), which debuts Friday in New York, is a spiritual multimedia performance from the 45-year-old novelist and musician.