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Holding On and Letting Go: Rebecca Aronson’s Anchor

Gravity is what tethers us to the earth and to those we love, but it is also what we are constantly trying to escape. Anchor is about both these states—the holding on and the letting go—and the tension between them.

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Challenging the Length and Notion of Storytelling: A conversation with Davon Loeb

. . . good writing and good storytelling has to exceed the relatable . . .

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Artifacts of Adolescence: Curing Season by Kristine Langley Mahler

We lose track of things and people over time. But back then, they felt like everything.

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Writing About a Muslim Girl Who Can Contain Multitudes: A Conversation with Bushra Rehman

Teenagers are brilliant—you actually get duller as an adult . . .

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Navigating the Messy, the Scary, and the Beautiful: A conversation with Marisa Crane

I think humor is so important to who we are as people, how we deal with pain, how we connect with one another. It’s essential to my being and my writing.

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A Kind of Common Madness: A Conversation with Liz Harmer

Two huge things happened to me when I was quite young: I went mad, and I fell in love, in relatively swift succession.

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Finding Freedom in the Absurd: Jesse Ball’s Autoportrait

From Ball’s absurdist perspective, leaning into the world’s inherent purposelessness isn’t about embracing mortality. It’s about embracing complete obliteration.

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A Conversation with Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao About their Collaborative Novella, Funeral

Writing started feeling interesting again, like it was worth it after all, and not just a boring thing that ate ham sandwiches on white bread for every meal and whose favorite book from last year was [Redacted] by [Famous author], which remained on the NYT Bestsellers List for what felt like forever.

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Sketch Book Reviews: Beaverland by Leila Phillip

. . . a little beaver named Geronimo

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Inventing the Form of Yourself: A conversation with Maggie Millner

I have great affection for writers who come into their queerness after they’ve already written books . . .

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Another Oracle: Lynn Xu’s Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Light

Almost ten years have passed since Lynn Xu’s debut, the luminous Debts & Lessons, introduced us to her oracle. “Let it not be for what you write, the world /…

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Connecting Our Past to Our Present: An Interview With Jamila Minnicks

Within true community, we can experience our deepest vulnerabilities because we know that we are safe to fail, encouraged to thrive, and needed to be part of something greater than our little selves.

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