“The Context of Us”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado

As readers, we pride ourselves on curating our personal libraries because they visually represent the collection of genres, forms, and authors we admire most. My bookshelf is a disorganized rainbow of dark-spined British literature anthologies, vibrant blue-green-white contemporary paperbacks, and yellowing copies of my favorites, including Little Women, The Secret History, and The Handmaid’s…