Make to Know

Watson compares her process in both life and work with dadaist experiments “where you take an image, cut it up, throw it on the floor and then make something of the chaos that has landed. There’s a system to it, but it allows for confusion and failure and all this other stuff to happen.” She and I grapple together to understand the nature of what t

“I am always unclear when people say they love writing but don’t like editing. To me they are the same.

Through the process of “making leadership,” I came to know what I wanted to do, both with the department and with this new aspect of my career.

I spend a lot of time trying to think about the difference between myself and some other person and how we wind up in the places we do.”

is, for her, a source of some of her deepest questions.

Having found an entry into this world of uncertainty, what then? What does the writer build within that space that moves the project forward?

“I look back at the work and I say, okay, what did I do? I take my time, and I always find something revelatory in that process of taking it in.”

That focus, for the novelist, is the filter through which certain very specific issues become relevant.

she enters a world of uncertainty from a place of moral ambiguity which