“Literature’s standard is not journalistic. Triple-sourced verification of one’s assertions is not an imprimatur of the kind of truth that literature is after, which is fundamentally metaphorical.”
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“I think maybe I was just a little weird as a kid, or I had a high tolerance for icky things.”
“I’m just trying to be a vaudevillian most of the time, trying to surprise you or make you laugh. And then in the process of trying to do that, sometimes you go, ‘Oh, this story is actually about something kind of deep.’”
“It’s beautiful and exciting to let fungi lure my mind into unusual positions.”
“Someone might endeavor to begin at the beginning, but then somebody else would interject. They would have to go backward before they could go forward, and that’s what I wanted it to feel like when it was being read.”
Sunil Amrith talks about how environmental hope and environmental joy can come from decentralized climate action and community building.
“Every city is about change—even Pittsburgh, which for so long we thought of as stuck or static.”
With Padma’s All American, the writer and Emmy-nominated host reimagines the nation’s palate, honoring the cooks and cultures that have always flavored its soul.
“Secrecy is the greenhouse in which addiction blooms, flourishes, and metastasizes.”
“The framers never intended for the Constitution to be preserved, like a butterfly, under glass.”
