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Here Comes Your Man
You know what’d be cool?” Evan motions you closer, pulling several sticks from your costume, dragging them slowly across the sides of your breasts before tearing them open and dumping the sugar on the table. “If you snorted this.
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La maravilla del silencio: Una conversación con Samanta Schweblin
En la frontera entre la realidad y la fantasía se abren espacios donde lo fantástico y el horror parecieran desbordarse y volverse posibles. Es en esos huecos donde habitan los universos narrativos de Samanta Schweblin. Y es que su prosa…
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Against the “Dead Girl Trope,” Giving Agency to Missing Girls: A Conversation with Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Third person was hard for me when I started writing because I associate it with the all-knowing realist narrator in classic novels, a narrator who has full knowledge of the world, an authority I didn’t feel I had. But as…
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The Magic of Grouse County: Tom Drury’s West of Loveland
This jumpstart quest is classic Drury: in The End of Vandalism, the same Dan Norman gets a mysterious tip and finds an abandoned baby in front of a Hy-Vee grocery store; in Hunts in Dreams, the plumber-turned-thief Tiny Darling becomes…
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In the Sickness Lies the Cure: A Conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn
I came up against that tension as I was trying to write about something very small, which was the truth about myself. I did feel, despite all the doubleness and multiplicity, that there was a definitive truth about myself, if…
