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From the Archive: We Are More: New Country, Old Bones
What did you hope to build in the / New country?
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August Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Chatting with two of August’s Letters in the Mail featured authors about some of their favorite books.
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Make something inexplicable happen: An Interview with Morgan Talty
What’s funnier than somebody having a mental breakdown? We all experienced it, so why can’t we laugh at that?
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Fat Ghost
Only now can I finally see how this had been our pact all along. We’d decided between us, somewhere along the way, and without any real discussion, that my mother would be the flower and I would be the wax…
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Between the Lands of the Living and the Dead: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
. . . as the St. Bernard women in Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel When We Were Birds have understood from generation to generation, the dead need to stay dead . . .
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Form as a Metaphor for Fatness: A Conversation with Stephanie Rogers
Is it ridiculous to say don’t give up? Because I mean it.
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From the Archive | Spotlight Comic: “Fashion Dos and Don’ts 2050: Climate Apocalypse Edition”
A satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.
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Just by Looking at Him: Ryan O’Connell Trust-Falls into Novel Writing
. . . after I finished my first book, I was like, “I’m never writing a book again,” because that process was so miserable. But now that I’ve written this novel . . .
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Life has a way of taking that out of you: A conversation with Tom Perrotta
. . . the novel exists as a form because it allows you to see both the character’s thoughts and the character’s actions, and they rarely line up.
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An Open Letter in Lieu of a Review: on Still Life by Jay Hopler
. . . there’s some vital aspect to a person even the approach of oblivion can’t erase.
