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Wattle Season
I’m coming for you, I’d whisper to the buds, or they’d whisper to me. I’m never sure which way the promises go when it comes to wattle season
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We Are September Travelers
It is somatosensory memory at work—the smell of dying leaves and lake water and Barbasol, of suddenly freezing air and pine sap and the haze of Lestoil that overtook us when we stepped into the motel room the night before.
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The October Rumpus Book Club: “American Hagwon” with Min Jin Lee
In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee tells the story of the Koh family—John and Helen and their three children, Bo, DH, and Mido—whose carefully constructed middle-class life in Korea is shattered by betrayal and the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
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Bodega as a Bridge to Storytelling: A Conversation with Amaris Castillo
I hope that Latinx readers will pick this up and read it and feel like there’s something in it for them and that it’s resonant. But I was also aware that this book is set in Florida and there are…
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How Do You Write a Palestinian Novel
As a young person, I absorbed this Janus as a particularly Palestinian predicament, one very much at the heart of my Palestinian novel. And yet, such a Janus lives in many of us—escape your past, you cannot escape your past;…
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Falling Scales
The longer she stayed in the water, the better the numbness felt. She dipped her head back. How easy it would be to slip in just a little bit further. Clothes swollen with silt and midges and snow fleas. Heart…
