Interviews with five novelists Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol Oates, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margaret Atwood on writing something true with fiction. Oates: “If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI?”
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“Narrative is the way we organize reality, how we understand ourselves and the people around us and, most importantly, what we have lived through. But we currently exist in a world where multiple narratives, deployed via TikToks, podcasts, trolling posts, disjointed YouTube rants, and official U.S. government press releases, all compete to shape and warp our shared sense of reality.”
Margaret Atwood spitting facts as usual
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> The best novels don’t pander, and they don’t conform to any marketing trends. A hero does not have to be between the ages of 18 and 35, does not have to be American, does not have to be straight or white or middle class or polite. Instead, a great novel delivers something you did not even know you needed.
“It is purely a coincidence that we have selected 5 female novelists in 2026. Don’t worry about it, just pretend we are past all this.”
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Interviews with five novelists Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol Oates, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margaret Atwood on writing something true with fiction. Oates: “If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI?”
“Narrative is the way we organize reality, how we understand ourselves and the people around us and, most importantly, what we have lived through. But we currently exist in a world where multiple narratives, deployed via TikToks, podcasts, trolling posts, disjointed YouTube rants, and official U.S. government press releases, all compete to shape and warp our shared sense of reality.”
Margaret Atwood spitting facts as usual
> The best novels don’t pander, and they don’t conform to any marketing trends. A hero does not have to be between the ages of 18 and 35, does not have to be American, does not have to be straight or white or middle class or polite. Instead, a great novel delivers something you did not even know you needed.
“It is purely a coincidence that we have selected 5 female novelists in 2026. Don’t worry about it, just pretend we are past all this.”