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  • Being Seen: A Conversation with Lane Moore

    Being Seen: A Conversation with Lane Moore

    Lane Moore discusses her first book, HOW TO BE ALONE.

  • This Is What I Get for Wanting

    This Is What I Get for Wanting

    When I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”

  • This Week in Short Fiction

    This week, Joyland has a new story from poet and fiction writer Joanna C. Valente about gender, sexual intercourse, and sexual violence. Their story, “You’re Gonna Scream When You Die,” opens with a scene that immediately backs up the dire…

  • Weekly Geekery

    A professor who lived as a badger shares nature-writing tips. Casual sex after college: definitely a thing. Peanut butter purity battles—and is “natural” food really better? NASA plays God, recreates Earth. When, oh when, will you write your masterpiece? At age…