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Jessica Cuello
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“Writing is An Insistence Against a World Insisting Otherwise”: An Interview with Jessica Cuello

  • Philip Metres
  • October 2, 2023
Literature is a balm against loneliness. I feel close to these other writers, to the characters in their books, to these women in history.
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Negotiating Grief, Shame, Loneliness, and Love: A Conversation with Vauhini Vara

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • September 27, 2023
When Vauhini Vara’s This is Salvaged (W.W. Norton, 2023) arrived at my doorstep, I couldn’t wait to tear through the slim collection. Vara is a master storyteller, but more than…
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The Novelist as Playwright: Albert Camus’s Caligula and Three Other Plays

  • Matthew Gasda
  • September 26, 2023
Bloom’s translations of these plays remind us that Camus was not a philosopher who used theater to illustrate arguments like Sartre, but a tragic thinker for whom drama was a fundamental and necessary means of literalizing political and ethical metaphors.
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They’re Both and They’re Neither: A Conversation with Robert Lunday

  • Sarah Haas
  • September 25, 2023
My stepfather would always tell me, “Don’t think, act. Follow orders.” For me, I want to stop to consider the different angles.
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Sketch Book Reviews: Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-runners

  • Kateri Kramer
  • September 21, 2023
Seeley uses historical studies, new findings, charts/graphs, and his absolute love of bees to teach readers.
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Main Character as Witness: A Conversation with Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya

  • María Alejandra Barrios
  • September 20, 2023
To some extent, I think I was also exploring how witnessing, absorbing, and listening are related to writing, and questioning whether this is a valuable way of approaching a life. I think it can be.
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Of Streets and Saints: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Boys Alive and Theorem

  • Souli Bouthis
  • September 19, 2023
Considered together, these novels trace the triumph of consumerism over rebellion, the bourgeoisie over the underclass, capital over life.
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I See Something I Can’t Shake: A Conversation with Myronn Hardy

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • September 18, 2023
As a poet, I’m constantly trying to make connections and see between and among things.
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Human and No Less Miraculous: The Craft of Explication in Eugenia Leigh’s Bianca

  • Asa Drake
  • September 13, 2023
Within Bianca, the speaker must choose the life she has over and over again, as a way forward—not as a stoic rendition of the eternal return of the same, but as desire.
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Daphne Kalotay
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The Intimacy of the Short Story: A Conversation with Daphne Kalotay

  • Kate Finegan
  • September 13, 2023
Compassion is a window, and ideally the reader feels that—even if they’re reading a character whom they don’t necessarily like—this person is a rounded character with good qualities, bad qualities, and in-between qualities.
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Imprisoned by Insomnia: Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq

  • Matti Ben-Lev
  • September 12, 2023
Memoir is less common territory for Darrieussecq, but with insomnia, she has found a real-world subject appropriate for her ongoing concerns about making sense of the absurd.
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Jinwoo Chong
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The Turbulent Landscape of Identity: A Conversation with Jinwoo Chong

  • Yasmin Roshanian
  • September 11, 2023
I’ve always wanted to write plot-driven novels that borrow from a lot of different traditions and institutions. That’s something I like most to read, and whenever I write something, I try to write something that I enjoy reading too.
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