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Kirstin Allio

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Kirstin Allio is currently a Howard Foundation Fellow at Brown University. Her story collection, Clothed, Female Figure comes out with Dzanc in 2016. Her novel, Garner (Coffee House), was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award for First Fiction. She has received the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award, a PEN/O. Henry Prize, and has published many short stories, poems, and essays.
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Common Strange

  • Kirstin Allio
  • April 7, 2016
Ena Brdjanovic describes the commanding, performative, discomfiting, and off-kilter folk tale qualities of Diane Williams’s recent story collection: In sum, the 40 short stories of Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine…
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One of the Crowd

  • Kirstin Allio
  • April 7, 2016
12,000 members of the literary community/industry gathered in LA for AWP last week. Viet Thanh Nguyen considers the writer’s sometimes conflicting needs for audience, privacy, and the tribe. He writes of…
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Poets Unrestrained

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 24, 2016
Over at Harriet, Uche Nduke writes full-throttle praise and rich description of three poets who influenced him, Norman Fischer, Andrew Levy, and Lewis Warsh. Nduke’s own writing is anchored by…
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Women Writers Lost and Found

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 24, 2016
Henry James found in the stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson “a remarkable minuteness of observation and tenderness of feeling on the part of one who evidently did not glance and…
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The Novel as a Character

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 17, 2016
At Lit Hub, an excerpt from a vivid, metaphor-rich conversation that appears in the spring issue of BOMB Magazine in which Christopher Sorrentino calls the novel an “impoverished count, living in…
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Eileen Myles Is a “Hall of Mirrors”

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 17, 2016
Famous people are of course the repositories for the hopes, dreams, and shames of the non famous. Arielle Greenberg, editor of Rumpus series (K)ink: Writing While Deviant, writes searchingly about herself,…
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Writing from the Margins into the Universal

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 17, 2016
Sahota takes it further in “The Year of the Runaways”: “What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great…
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Self-in-Landscape Art

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 10, 2016
It’s Women’s History Month at the Poetry Foundation. The editors peg Elizabeth Bishop’s poems—in volumes with titles like North & South, Questions of Travel, Geography III—to her wide-ranging geography, and to…
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Author in the First Person

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 10, 2016
There’s humor and advice on the long haul of novel-writing in an interview with Porochista Khakpour over at Prairie Schooner. Khakpour describes “problem-solving a chunk at a time,” and pushing through a…
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Human Nature

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 10, 2016
Han Kang, Korean author of the recently translated The Vegetarian, takes on humanity “from the sublime to the brutal.” In an in-depth interview at The White Review, she explores the “(im)possibility…
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Reading on Reading on Reading

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 3, 2016
Reading Montaigne, the god of the sinuous modern essay, the essay that invites the reader to watch the writer write, is “reading him reading,” and reading others reading him before.…
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Children in Numbers

  • Kirstin Allio
  • March 3, 2016
At Guernica, poet Susan Briante shares a personal, lyric essay on motherhood in a system—our own—undergirded by the valuation of children. “Dusk traffics light, the light scans her” becomes “The market scans…
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