Is There a Space for New Things?

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I think we're in this hard period of trying to imagine a new space. Coming up with new things is hard, especially when we've got ideas of what it might look like. I feel like fiction is almost like a doorstop that kind of wedges the door open. It's just kind of holding open a space where new stuff could come in. We don't know exactly what it is yet, but it could be different. But there's a possibility that the way things are now is not the way that things have to be.

1. What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be.

2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.

3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities.

4. The gift of a “midlife crisis”

5. What a mother’s job really is.

About Celeste:

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

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