Rachel Zucker speaks with Erika L. Sánchez about her first book of poems, her first YA novel (currently shortlisted for the National Book Award), her experience as a sex advice columnist, how her manuscript became a book, writing unlikeable characters, shame, obsessions, sex, making things up in poems and prose, authenticity, feminism, Buddhism, and DACA.
EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 39Books by Erika L. SánchezI Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf, 2017)
Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017)
Other Books and Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeDana Levin
Morgan Parker
Jennifer Tamayo
Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf, 2017)
“Anastasia & Sandman” by Larry Levis from Elegy
Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark (Haymarket, 2016)
Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown, 2009)
Celia Perez’s The First Rule of Punk (Viking Books, 2017)
Other Relevant LinksCanto Mundo
Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences
Judithe Hernández
Lisa Simpson
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech
2013 was a big year for feminism, but the movement still alienates minorities published by The Guardian
Fornicating While Latina: Why I Was Deeply Ashamed of Sex and How I Got Over It published by AlterNet
Episode 121: Fred Moten and Ronaldo Wilson - Part 2
Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Episode 114: Live & Embodied
113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
Episode 109: Joy Harjo
Episode 108: Saeed Jones
Episode 107: Eileen Myles
Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
Episode 105: Carl Phillips
Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
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