Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award and garnered a 2022 Whiting Award. Her novel, Headshot, is forthcoming from Viking. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON.
In Conversation
There Are No Real Places
JESSE BALL with Rita Bullwinkel
esse Ball is a writer. He is also a fighter and a photographer though, as youll learn below, he lacks faith in images. He has written three prior novels, all of which leave a lingering feeling that your heart contains not four chambers, but five, and that someone, unbeknownst to you, has inserted a false memory into that previously secret fifth atrium.
What Girl Built
By Rita BullwinkelGirl on boat, boat covered in ice, ice holds boat in place. Letter is delivered to boat. Girl comes out of boat and skis north to direction from which letter came. World is cold and snow creates dunes that are blown about by wind.