Kyla Walker

Jan 24, 2025 | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Kyla Walker

Skip to content interviews The author of "Good Girl" discusses writing a pulsing, provocative novel about an Afghan German woman growing up and falling down Good Girl—the debut novel by award-winning poet Aria Aber—follows nineteen-year-old Nila as she becomes charmed in a Berlin club and falls manically in love with Marlowe, an older brooding American writer. Raised by Afghan refugees, Nila’s childhood remains haunted by the shadows of exile while she yearns to be free and to live life...

Aug 13, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Kyla Walker

Interviews "Medusa of the Roses" follows Anjir's search for his missing lover in a country where homosexuality is criminalized Have you ever come across a close friend’s love letters? In today’s world, this is more akin to accidentally reading private texts or emails open on a roommate’s laptop, but there are still the fortunate few out there who have the time and discipline and romanticism to write by hand and spell out the name of their addressee in pen. This is the feeling one gets while...

Jul 17, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Kyla Walker

interviews Santiago Jose Sanchez, Uchenna Awoke, and Yasmin Zaher on the highs and lows of the writing and publishing process While reading a debut novel, oftentimes, there exists a momentary thrill of forgetting about craft. Instead, it can feel as if these writers grew up alongside their stories—in parallel lines and lives, naturally accumulating sentences with every inch they grew. There is a tender, literary innocence and a certain freedom from expectation that comes with debut novels....

Jul 10, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Kyla Walker

Skip to content interviews In her new novel, a couple searches for a new home and forges a place for themselves in their next stage of life Ayşegül Savaş’s third novel, The Anthropologists, is a breathtaking excavation of the wonders and intricacies involved in making a modern life in a new city, of feeling both young and adult, and of growing up while settling down. Through afternoon walks, late-night conversations, and a series of apartment tours, The Anthropologists follows Asya and her...

Jun 11, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Kyla Walker

Skip to content interviews The author discusses her new novel "Ask Me Again," the ecstasies of silence, the texture of long-term friendships, and Quaker meetings Throughout her body of work, Clare Sestanovich’s prose asks the kind of questions that make you lean back—pondering daily paradoxes you’d never quite considered before—while her characters make you lean forward onto the edge of your seat. They’re riddled with intricacy and detailed depictions of people you recognize but were never...