Interview with Elisa Gonzalez

"some of the best noticers I’ve ever met were people with the most pain and the least money"

I first became aware of Elisa Gonzalez because she wrote what I think is probably the best essay on my favorite living writer that I’ve ever read. The piece is, on the surface, a consideration of Marilynne Robinson’s treatment of race (something that some very shallow readers have tried to go after her about); it is also, to me, a statement simultaneous…