Marissa Korbel

No Resolutions: Talking with Lidia Yuknavitch

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Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her new story collection, VERGE.

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The Thread: Lacuna

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If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.

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The Thread: Hairy Mary Full of Grace

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What a strange depiction. Mary, mother of Jesus, covered in hair.

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Hearing a Novella/Reading an Album: Talking with Katharine Coldiron

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Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.

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The Thread: Ghosts at the Door

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Ghosts, like women as people, are just a theory.

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Celebrating Queer Portland: A Conversation with Claire Rudy Foster

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Foster discusses their new story collection, SHINE OF THE EVER.

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The Thread: Art Monsters

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I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human.

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The Thread: On Justice

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I can’t speak, but I can scream.

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The Thread: The Stories We’ve Been Told

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It’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.

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The Thread: Down Girl

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Misogyny reminds us of our place: down girl.

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The Internal and the External: A Conversation with Wendy Willis

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Wendy Willis discusses her new essay collection, THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, MY DEAR.

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The Thread: Outside the Gaze

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This is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need.

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The Thread: American Garbage

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The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.

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The Thread: The Masked Man

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What I know and don’t know about men matters. What men know and don’t know about themselves matters more.

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The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters

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Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.

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The Thread: Look What You Made Me Do

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Can a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?

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The Thread: Volcanoes

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Is there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?

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