"If I were to even write it today, it would be a very different book. It might be better in some ways, but it would be probably less emotionally true to how I was feeling."
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"If I were to even write it today, it would be a very different book. It might be better in some ways, but it would be probably less emotionally true to how I was feeling."
“It doesn't get easier, I thought it would along the way.”
“The door didn’t open every day, but every time it did, I pushed it as far as it would go.”
“Writing poetry has trained my eye and ear to look and listen to my day with deep attention.”
“Each translation has its own personality- and should have.”
"…I’m just sort of putting my ear against the thing and trying to discern its heartbeat…”
“Walmart making its own insulin, like, really gives me chills.”
Amy Bonnaffons: “I really liked the idea that even the people who literally carry out the business of death and of transition from this world to the next have no idea what they’re doing.”
Pingmei Lan’s short story, “Cicadas and the Dead Chairman,” which appeared in Epiphany’s Fall/Winter 2018 issue, has been named a winner of the prestigious PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. Below is a brief interview with Pingmei, featuring our Epiphany 10 questions.
