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Erin Vachon

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Erin Vachon is the Multigenre Reviewer-at-Large for The Rumpus. You can find their work at www.erinvachon.com.
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“Three Initiates”: On Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L

  • Erin Vachon
  • May 13, 2025
When Thornton’s characters’ lives on and off screen drastically diverge, A/S/L not only satisfies nostalgia, but catapults the narrative to a whole new level.
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LittlePuss Press Double Release: On Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event: An Essay & Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction

  • Erin Vachon
  • April 15, 2025
If the LittlePuss books are advanced exercises in cognitive dissonance, Blaxell and Solomonik insist on returning to matters of the heart.
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“even as we all crowd the same body”: On Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa

  • Erin Vachon
  • March 11, 2025
To read Tetra Nova is to lean into nonlinear disorientation, flipping pages back and forth across time, scribbling in the margins of Vietnamese history.
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“stones will know”: On Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood

  • Erin Vachon
  • February 18, 2025
Hood wonders how to write rape and its aftermath when its very nature is fragmentation, a form that disqualifies it as a story.
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“It’d Be the Last Great Punk Song”: On ¡PÓNK! by Marcus Clayton

  • Erin Vachon
  • January 14, 2025
Punk is not safe, but neither is the world if you are Black or brown.
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“Why Are You Still Resisting?”: On M.M. Olivas’s Sundown in San Ojuela

  • Erin Vachon
  • December 17, 2024
Olivas’s novel is a gross-as-hell ghost story and a razor-sharp vision of the present moment, a multi-narrator rollercoaster you’ll binge like your favorite television show.
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“ew, don’t use my sound ever again”: On Tyranny and Poupeh Missaghi’s Sound Museum

  • Erin Vachon
  • November 19, 2024
Power is the end in itself, not a means to justice.
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“A Game of Chance You Can Choose to Play or Not”: On Lauren Russell’s A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close

  • Erin Vachon
  • October 22, 2024
[Russell] creates breathing room by breaking genre expectations, so that everything invisible swoops into stark relief.
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“I Am in Love With Moons”: My Lesbian Novel and To After That (TOAF) by Renee Gladman

  • Erin Vachon
  • September 10, 2024
But this is love: crying into your lover’s face until it becomes so ridiculous, that the event becomes absolutely precious.
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“There Is No Page That Can Hold Me”: Sam Sax’s Yr Dead

  • Erin Vachon
  • August 6, 2024
By insisting that Ezra’s ordinary life is epic, Sax shows that every life must be epic, holding everyone accountable. No one can sit out.
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