Features & Reviews
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Slant Panes of Light: Emilie Menzel’s The Girl Who Became a Rabbit
Meaning is fleeting. Meaning is self-made.
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I Have Been Mythologizing Myself: A Conversation with Saba Keramati
To create art is to share one’s own mythologies with the larger world.
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I Like Books About Books: A Review of Shannon Reed’s Why We Read
WHY WE READ reminds us not only of where we began as readers but also where we could go if we release our inhibitions and allow ourselves to simply enjoy reading.
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The Sad–Beautiful: A Conversation with Amy Stuber
I usually go into a story with a feel for a situation or a character or a place more than an actual storyline.
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My Voice Doesn’t Fall Neatly into a Category: A Conversation with Desiree Akhavan
I think everyone changes. I feel a lot more steadfast in who I am and what I make.
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How to Win a Gunfight: Bret Anthony Johnston’s We Burn Daylight
The teens in this book seem to know something the adults don’t: that if they are going to have any kind of future, they must create it themselves.
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Living in a Nowhere Space: A Conversation with Olivia Gatwood
Tech perpetuates ideas we’ve already had about women, but it just blows them out of proportion to kind of impossible degrees.
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The First Book: Santiago Jose Sanchez
I was repeatedly drawn to the fractures in my life—the gaps between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and my relationships with sex, my mother, and my motherland.
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Reversing the Apocalypse: A Review of Hussain Ahmed’s Blue Exodus
…the world of the dead, the living, and the unborn are all in a cycle. Human materiality is indestructible.
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The Complex Heritage of Assimilation: A Conversation with Randy Ribay
Our collective individual efforts impact in some way, the community. It’s important for me to not pass judgment because we are all figuring it out.
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The Eternal Grind: Nick Rees Gardner’s Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts
A clever manipulator of time, Gardner doesn’t rely on the convenience of thirst to move his characters through the page.
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“I Wanted the Magic Bullet”: A Conversation with Jessica Hoppe
…that’s what’s toxic: the belief that I’m not enough. Substances are, in general, neutral.