The Joypain of Parenting: Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State
This is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
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Kyle Winkler
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Kyle Winkler lives and teaches in northeast Ohio. His fiction has been published in Conjunctions and The Rupture and essays appear in The Millions. He keeps a commonplace space at kylewinkler.net and can be followed on Twitter @bleakhousing.
The Last Repatriate by Mathew Salesses
There’s an inherent need to stitch together a war veteran’s memory because narratives made of memories are otherwise fragmented. This is the tragedy of a war story—that the wholeness will…