Features & Reviews
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Voice as the Sunlight of the Story: A Conversation with Robert Shapard
Voice is the sunlight of the story for me, the starting point.
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“stones will know”: On Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
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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A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records
Sophronius writes from an awareness of Chinese Indonesian marginality, yet the pulse of the collection’s counternarrative coheres around an Indonesian national identity.
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Redefining Memoir: A Conversation with Jackie Domenus
For queer and trans writers, our narratives are usually not traditional or linear.
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Unearthing the Sediment of Stories in Our Bodies: An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
When I’m inside creativity or making art, it feels like a worthy place for a person like me to spend her life.
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There Would Still Be Love: A Conversation with Matthew Nienow
I’m committed to and interested in this kind of deep accountability and honesty.
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Queer Mormon Joy Beyond the Fairy Tale: AJ Romriell’s Wolf Act
…the sacred and the profane are hidden in each other’s disguises, like Red Riding Hood’s Granny with her suspiciously sharp teeth.
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To Write about the Way You Read is to Write about the Way You Live: A Conversation with Sarah Chihaya
…to write about the way I read, I also had to write about the way I lived
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Endless Leisure: Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence
Under the right eyes, everything that Torres touches turns to gold.
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Love and Technology in the Time of Climate Change: A Conversation with Anita Felicelli
…regardless of what part of the coast you land on, an atmosphere of limitlessness pervades.
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We Are Not Free: A Conversation with Roberto Carlos Garcia
We also know that by disrupting and challenging the language, or dismantling the language, we can, hopefully, dismantle white supremacy.
