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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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Life has a way of taking that out of you: A conversation with Tom Perrotta

. . . the novel exists as a form because it allows you to see both the character’s thoughts and the character's actions, and they rarely line up.

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An Open Letter in Lieu of a Review: on Still Life by Jay Hopler

. . . there’s some vital aspect to a person even the approach of oblivion can’t erase.

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Swallowing the Darkness: Gag Reflex by Elle Nash

““i’m soft-skinned but my bones have hardened calcium deposited cartilage, the fat around my heart lithified with the carnage of constrictors around tiny mice ribs, squeezed till it removes the soft mealy insides. sucked out by standards i will never reach. by these industry snakes."

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What to Read When You’d Rather be in Australia

Featuring an "erotic lesbian crime thriller," because we need that in our lives right now.

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