Features & Reviews
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Despair is a Luxury, but Hope is a Discipline: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Despair is a luxury, but hope is a discipline.
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I Needed Love Poems For Myself: A Conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate
I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up physical space in the poems and…
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The Tightrope Walk of Making Comics: A Conversation with María Medem
I have a love for showing movement and things as they are. I feel very uncomfortable when things are abrupt, especially if the story doesn’t call for it.
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The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams
I wish mental health care practices acknowledged the heroic effort of living between worlds and could be more curious about psychosis as a psychic call for help.
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The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
My work is really infused with hope even when I’m writing difficult history—there’s always love there.
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“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.
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Unfun: Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both
There’s a temptation to look for narrative redemption, a sense of completeness, some reassurance that the trouble was worthwhile, that all will be okay.
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Never Just One Story: A Conversation with Wayne Scott
Falling in love for the first time is like the first draft of a short story you’re writing— messy and exciting and full of possibilities.
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The Wildness of Grief: Sarah Giragosian’s Mother Octopus
…mothering is entwined with dying throughout this wide-ranging volume, as birth and death are revealed as two sides of one leaf.
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LittlePuss Press Double Release: On Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event: An Essay & Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction
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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Masculinity, Grief, and Music: A Conversation with Denne Michele Norris
Our capacity for imagination is boundless—and that’s where there’s some porousness between how different people move through the world.
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The First Book: Sam Ashworth
The human body is the most miraculous machine, and each of us gets one—just one.