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(keys clicking) (bell dinging) (carriage clicking) - [Bryan] Hi, I'm Bryan Washington and this is "Memorial", a story about love, about family, about home and how home can


change. (emotive music) - [J.T.] There's a lot of cooking in the book. Could you talk about how important it is to feel comfortable in your kitchen and how that translates into your


life? - The kitchen, like narratively, just sort of as a narrative construct, is just a really useful structural tool, because it's the one space where a character, where people pass


through every single day for one reason or another. And there's a narrative for when they pass through it. Like literally when, like what time of day. there's a narrative for who


they spend time with in that particular space, right? Like if they're avoiding someone, there's a reason for that, there's a narrative there. If they're willing to spend


time with someone in that space, there's a reason for that, there's a narrative there. - [J.T.] What do you want the reader to take away from this? - The idea that many different


things can be true simultaneously. And that one thing's being true doesn't negate the importance or the significance of another thing's being true. At the same time, it was


really important to me not to write a book that was prescriptive about any particular thing or person or way of being but one in which characters and, you know, people perhaps at large were


allowed to change and to make mistakes and to find one another after they changed and after they made those mistakes. - What is the best writing advice you've ever received? - Not to


write with an eye or an ear toward monetization or to the market, because the market really doesn't know what it wants until it wants it. But really writing toward your personal


interests and your personal obsessions and the things that perhaps you think are interesting only to you, at least in my immediate experience has yielded a result in which you find out that


no, it's not interesting to you. Many other folks are interested in that. - [J.T.] For more of my conversation with Bryan Washington, visit awordonwords.org. (bell dinging) - [Bryan]


"Memorial" would not have been written and it certainly would not have been published and it would have not found its place within the wider marketplace if not for the work of


queer folks in this country, carving not only an enclave but reiterating and repeating that it is queer culture but this is also culture, like this, this is culture.


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