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  • Gravity

    Gravity

    Poverty is like being inside a black hole, or what I imagine a black hole to be. Like swimming through a thick dark that reaches up to your neck, and all you feel is the slimy cold, clenching your throat…

  • The Dream State of Metafiction & Wild Freedom of Short Stories: An Interview with Jess Row

    The Dream State of Metafiction & Wild Freedom of Short Stories: An Interview with Jess Row

    “I wanted to do something very different. Something more explicitly political, more deeply experimental in the sense of using metafiction, not just as a clever way of reminding the reader that they’re reading a construct, but metafiction that really digs…

  • The Space We Make for Each Other

    The Space We Make for Each Other

    My son taught me that the way someone moves through the world isn’t a problem to solve. It’s a measure of how much room we are willing to make.

  • Amelia

    Amelia

    No era apenas que ella estuviese perdiendo de vista a las personas y las cosas. Más bien parecía como si todo se estuviera disolviendo. Incluso las memorias estaban perdiendo sus contornos. La playa, la muchedumbre sobre la arena, sus primas…

  • Awkward Intimacy

    Awkward Intimacy

    “We have built a world that privileges stimulation over presence and convenience over mutuality. There is an American dimension to this worth naming: a culture organized around individual achievement, self-reliance, and the mythology of pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps…

  • The Mystery Isn’t Figured Out: A Conversation with Julia Alvarez

    The Mystery Isn’t Figured Out: A Conversation with Julia Alvarez

    “Publication is punctuation. It’s also a distraction, but it’s necessary because you want to close the circle. When you’re a storyteller or a writer that puts the work out there, having a listener, someone who receives it, completes it and…


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