A Silver Bowl of Stars: Blas Falconer’s Rara Avis
Whether “It’s a [family] story we don’t like / to tell” or the shifting of roles and a meditation on death “In the book we are reading together,” wisdom closes its hand over sentiment.
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Keep the Pressure on the Present: A Conversation with Jody Hobbs Hesler
There’s only so much support you can have and really truly feel like you’ve been relieved of a set of responsibilities.
Danger Down Under: Fiona McFarlane’s Highway Thirteen
According to a website that calculates such things, the furthest city on the globe from my hometown in New York is Perth. Perth—I’ve heard of Perth.
On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood: A Conversation with Jennifer Case
When we study evolutionary biology, we learn that parenting was never supposed to take place in just a nuclear family. Yet that’s what has happened in our culture—with the majority of the expectations placed on mothers’ shoulders.
The Loose Borders of Genre: A Conversation with Kyle Winkler
I would suggest making friends with a horror writer, if nothing else.
On Living Dangerously: Lyta Gold’s Dangerous Fictions
We are once again living through an age when this fight over the purpose of storytelling, whose stories deserve to be heard, and how freely ideas should circulate is heated.
“The Force That Shapes Us”: A Conversation with Kenzie Allen
There will always be something new waiting to be found.
Seduced from Line to Line: A Conversation with Christian J. Collier
I want the work to sing on the page and, if someone were to read it aloud, sing as it exists in the air.
“A Game of Chance You Can Choose to Play or Not”: On Lauren Russell’s A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close
[Russell] creates breathing room by breaking genre expectations, so that everything invisible swoops into stark relief.
“We are so often strangers to ourselves”: A Conversation with Jordan Windholz
There is only so much you can tell your children about the reality of the world. So, to navigate that necessary withholding, we tell stories.
A Search for Country and Identity in Ayokunle Falomo’s Autobiomythography Of
It is Falomo’s legacy of rebirth, in rich, outstanding text, that there are things which must burn in order to be birthed anew