Jamaica Kincaid on Writing, Loss, and the Art of Fiction
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Interviewed by Darryl Pinckney
Summary
An in-depth interview with acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid, covering her early life in Antigua, her move to New York as a teenager, her path into writing, her career at The New Yorker, and reflections on loss, paradise, and the themes that permeate her literary work.
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Twitter / XJamaica Kincaid on Writing, Loss, and the Art of Fictiontheparisreview.orgKey quotes
· 3 pulledI suppose that my work is always mourning something, the loss of a paradise—not the thing that comes after you die, but the thing that you had before.
When I was sixteen, my family sent me to work as a nanny in New York. It was not a choice I made; it was a decision made for me.
Writing is a way of understanding the world, of making sense of things that otherwise would be unbearable.
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