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When Silences Need to Be Broken: Talking with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Language is inexact, and will always be an approximation. In my own experience of amnesia, there was a period of time where things didn't have names, and it was in that nameless, getting-to-know-something that I felt I knew it better.

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If You Eat It, It Becomes Authentic: A Conversation About Red Sauce with Ian MacAllen

There is this moment where you must first cut yourself off from doing more research because that rabbit trail goes on forever in some cases . . . You have to ask yourself, “Do I have enough?”

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Wrestling with Ghosts: Joseph Han’s Nuclear Family

“Mostly,” this novel warns us, “the dead are at peace. But when they are not, this is when they may ask something of us, attempt to guide our lives to fulfill what they could not.”

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Honoring the Past That Built Us: Talking with Kali Fajardo-Anstine

All of my writing is guided by the need to feel culturally seen and acknowledged as a vital part of the American identity.

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If You’re Bengali, Food is the Center of Everything: An Interview with Madhushree Ghosh

But food is not just a tool for memory, but also important in terms of social justice issues which Indian Americans don’t talk about because we are the model minority. We don’t want to get in trouble.

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Forms of Narrowing: Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers

After the memorials, the funerals, the endless influx of flowers and casserole dishes and well-meaning texts, the collective retreats back into their lives and all that is left is the individual, grieving for months and years and perhaps even the rest of their own life.

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A General Truth Through a Particular Lie: An Interview with the Creators of the Podcast Penknife

I personally find this myth of authenticity extremely insidious and damaging, because it often leads to purity tests and the constant need to prove one’s cred . . . rather than leading to constructive thought and action—

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What to Read When In Search of Eastern European Myths

because there's more than Dostoyevsky and Chekhov . . .

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Make something inexplicable happen: An Interview with Morgan Talty

What's funnier than somebody having a mental breakdown? We all experienced it, so why can't we laugh at that?

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Between the Lands of the Living and the Dead: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

. . . as the St. Bernard women in Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel When We Were Birds have understood from generation to generation, the dead need to stay dead . . .

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Form as a Metaphor for Fatness: A Conversation with Stephanie Rogers

Is it ridiculous to say don’t give up? Because I mean it.

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Just by Looking at Him: Ryan O’Connell Trust-Falls into Novel Writing

. . . after I finished my first book, I was like, “I'm never writing a book again,” because that process was so miserable. But now that I've written this novel . . .

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