The Dust Never Settles

An interview with Karina Lickorish Quinn, The Dust Never Settles (2021). Karina and I discuss the indigenous histories of Peru, the desire for more Spanish and indigenous languages to permeate her novel in English, on being English in Peru and Latina in England, and her awakening in the pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Books Recommended in this episode:

Karina Lickorish Quinn, The Dust Never Settles

Karina Recommends:

• Maia Elsner, Overrun by Wild Boars
• Leone Ross, One Sky Day
• Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
• Caleb Azuma Nelson, Open Water

Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers.