Features & Reviews
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The Possibilities Are Endless: Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights
[Valencia] portrays both the beauty and the horror of the desert, its landscape, and its inhabitants with the keen eye of someone who is intimately familiar with the rhythms and realities of desert life.
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The Good in What Remains: A Conversation with Rachel Zimmerman
You may end up losing control. You may yell at your child or your mother. I want to give permission to the smorgasbord of feelings around loss.
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Spellbound by the Dream Girls: A Conversation with Danez Smith
I’ve learned how to play inside prose. . . . I have no fear because I have no map.
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A Seaside Carnival of Narration: On Andrzej Tichý’s Purity
“You’ll be my way out. . . . And it makes no difference what you’re thinking or feeling, or whether or not you believe in transcendence or whatever you call it. I’m already inside of you.”
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Creating Community in a Long Line of Feminist Literary Spaces: A Conversation with Marisa Crawford
My guideline for myself and my advice for others in terms of curating and editing is to be open and let the work that’s created guide you…
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Causation and Carrier Bags: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler
Human exceptionalism is being challenged, and with that, there’s a growing public outcry that it’s time to care for our fellow creatures.
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“There Is No Page That Can Hold Me”: Sam Sax’s Yr Dead
By insisting that Ezra’s ordinary life is epic, Sax shows that every life must be epic, holding everyone accountable. No one can sit out.
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How Much We Will Never Know: A Conversation with Tyler Mills
If you can speak honestly about the risks you’re taking, it’s likely you’ll forge a deeper bond with your reader and your subject.
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Fiction, Grief, and Healing: A Conversation with Claire Oshetsky
I decided what the world needed was a novel with a big old bestial lesbian love affair in it.
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The Pawns of History Arise: Tania James’s Loot
What happens to the artist when his society shatters? How does he keep alive the impetus to create after losing his family and place in the world?
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Songs of Reclamation: A Conversation with Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Music is massively important, and it’s layered in this book. It’s Bikini Kill. It’s Nirvana. But it’s also our spirit songs.
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Grief at the Verge of Revelation: A Conversation with Hala Alyan
What makes a life? Not even what makes a life worth living, but what makes a life a life.