Interviews
10 Questions for Deesha Philyaw
- By Franchesca Viaud
The man who is about to ask you to marry him grabs the check from the little tin tray and slides the three fortune cookies toward you.
"All yours," he says.
You grin and he grins back. Three years together, and you have your rituals, your routines. When you have pizza, he eats the crusts you leave behind; when you have Chinese, you claim the fortune cookies he thinks are silly.
You crack open the first cookie and read the fortune inside. It says, A decade from now, the man sitting across from you is going to choke you.
You squint at the tiny piece of paper and read it again. Then you glance up at the man sitting across from you, the man you plan to spend the rest of your...