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 41: Danez Smith
Episode 40: Kaveh Akbar
Episode 38: Sharon Olds
Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso
Episode 36: Dialogue Arts Project
Episode 35: Aracelis Girmay
Episode 34: Dr. Joshua Bennett
Episode 33: Sabrina Orah Mark
Episode 32: Laynie Browne
Episode 31: Carmen Giménez Smith
Episode 30: Sarah Vap
Episode 29: Molly Peacock
Episode 28: Poems for Mother's Day
Episode 27: Rita Dove
Episode 26: Alice Notley
Episode 25: Ross Gay
Episode 24: Julie Carr
Episode 23: Morgan Parker
Episode 22: Undocupoets 2 — Javier Zamora, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Janine Joseph
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