Both require one to suspend your disbelief and to just it's not necessarily showing you something in order to fool you. It might be pointing to something you already know, but you can appreciate that thing so much more. And if our listeners could see the smile it just came on your face, it's like a full bodyed smile there. It's completely invested. M you know, it's interesting also, it occurs to me as you're sharing that is, ah, you don't have to be a magician to stort of sa,. The first responses are the second responses, how did they do that?
T Kira Madden is a writer, photographer, amateur magician, and a powerful voice and editor, earning fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is the founding Editor-in-chief of No Tokens, a journal celebrating work that is "felt in the spine, run entirely by women and non-binary individuals, dedicated to featuring the words and artwork of all voices of the past, present, and future, here to keep stories alive and to make a physical object to hold in your hands." Madden's 2019 memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, dropping you into a wildly colorful and character-filled childhood. She also teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and we explore all of this in today’s conversation.
You can find T Kira Madden at:
Website: http://www.tkiramadden.com/
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