I interviewed writer Alice Elliott Dark this week for my Page Turner book blog at Bitch. I wanted to focus on her essay, “The Quiet One,” from the new anthology Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives, edited by Peter Terzian. Here’s the interview. This is one of my favorite passages from it:

“I am more and more drawn to nonfiction. I like the effort to remember, and to understand memories. It is a different kind of truth, because in nonfiction one is dealing with the irrational contradictions of real people, whereas in fiction the characters must have a mathematical precision that serves the form of the work. Fictional truth is unreal in many ways, though it may reflect human interpretations of reality, and human dreams.”