Genre: Cross-Genre

“Hybrid writing is realized. It is the form that a story needs to take on the page.” In this 1-Week Critique interview hosted by Matthew Schmidt, author Nina Lohman discusses her approach to hybrid writing and walks through drafts of her latest book, The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain (University of Iowa Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this KING 5 News in Seattle interview, Frank Abe discusses The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Penguin Classics, 2024), a new anthology he coedited with Floyd Cheung, which includes collected letters, memoirs, poems, stories, and essays chronologically ordered to represent the full experience of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.

“These are notes on encountering the daily, the literary, the visual, violent, the arbitrary, the ordinary, and the beautiful…. They are always concerned with what I think of as the ordinary, extraordinary matter of Black life.” In this Virginia Museum of Fine Arts event, Christina Sharpe discusses her latest book, Ordinary Notes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), which weaves the past, present, and future together through various mediums ranging from lyric to photography.

As part of the Fictions & Forms reading series hosted by the University of Chicago’s Program in Creative Writing, Danielle Dutton discusses her intricate relationship to genre and form, and reads from her hybrid collection, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.