Think poems and nonfiction don’t have much overlap? Think again.
Read Jehanne Dubrow’s thoughts on the overlap between voltas and hermit crab essays, poetry and essays, in Assay issue 11.1.
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Madhushree Ghosh's memoir "Khabaar" is a beautiful book that blends and braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. 🍽️

Read her 2023 Interview Project chat here: buff.ly/KdN1jTe

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We're focusing on flash interviews today! Take a glance at these wonderful tidbits from @amymonticello in this 2021 To Wit interview.

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James Allen Hall’s “Wholly Fragmented” is giving #queerjoy but also #nonfictionjoy

Check it out along with other content from our latest issue!

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This week we’re pulling from The Assay Interview Project archives with Edvige Giunta.

“The history of labor is the story—the stories—of people, of families, of communities.”

Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/EgZKR3U

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"The artistry and the magic happen in the selection and arrangement of the materials."
-Donovan Hohn, on comparing Joseph Cornell boxes to nonfiction essays

Read Donovan's full 2020 full interview here: buff.ly/pf3yxUk

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"Write what you aren’t yet ready to speak," says Christine Cusick in our 2021 To Wit Flash interview.

This is a brief but wonderful deep dive into how we map our lives through prose. 📝

Read the flash interview here: buff.ly/VS27wis
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Interview by @juliemariewade
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We're thinking about flash today--flash interviews, that is! Joni Tevis covers a lot of ground in this quick chat from 2021.

Read today's interview here: buff.ly/9we1mNP
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For Kathryn Nuernberger, research is baked into her writing practice and ritual, and she encourages other writers to embrace this in today's Interview Project highlight.

Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/Wb9vmvb

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This week we’re pulling from the archives with an interview of Sumana Roy, conducted by Sayantani Dasgupta.

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Today we're spotlighting Vivian Wagner's "Crafting Digression" from Assay 5.1. Wagner argues that gamification can lead to modes of digression that are novel and new for creatives. 🎮

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