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Bouquet of Memoirs: A Conversation with Beth Ann Fennelly
“I know sometimes people find titles by looking at the titles of individual pieces, and they look for the most significant or biggest piece. And in this case, it was actually one of the slightest pieces, but that also seemed…
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The Taxonomy of Girlhood: Review of Susan L. Leary’s “More Flowers”
More Flowers interrogates how patriarchal authority persists even in its absence, transmitted through maternal caretaking rather than overt dominance. While an authoritative male figure is not present, the mother still governs by his rule, passing down restrictive and traditional expectations…
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“This Fraught and Gorgeous World”: A Conversation with Anna Lena Phillips Bell
“I’ve always loved the phrase might could—it’s very much part of the vernacular I grew up speaking and hearing. There’s both a sense of hope and a sense of resignation in it. When I was writing what became the book’s…
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The Call and Response of the Ensemble Novel: A Conversation with Emily Nemens
“I do think a lot about musical structures, and call and response. There is a common source to both writing and music—some of these patterns that we digest and metabolize as musicians about structure and callbacks. I love telling my…
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Obliteration and Authorship: On Hamid Ismailov’s “We Computers”
Jon-Perse’s vision for computer generated poetry can be summed up as a kind of obliteration of the author.
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