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Little by Little: Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia

  • Esa Grigsby
  • May 6, 2025
...disability will likely affect everyone in one way or another as they age—which is why regressive policies, revoked support, and limited accessibility are personal issues for us all.
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The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams

  • Erin Wood
  • May 5, 2025
I wish mental health care practices acknowledged the heroic effort of living between worlds and could be more curious about psychosis as a psychic call for help.
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We Must All Transition: Paul B. Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi

  • Acree Graham Macam
  • April 29, 2025
Here we see dysphoria’s root: not an internal mental imbalance but external injustice and material harm caused by systems of hierarchy and domination.
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The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez

  • Nefertiti Asanti
  • April 28, 2025
My work is really infused with hope even when I’m writing difficult history—there’s always love there.
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“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation

  • Yes(sí)
  • April 25, 2025
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.
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Unfun: Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both

  • Seán Carlson
  • April 22, 2025
There’s a temptation to look for narrative redemption, a sense of completeness, some reassurance that the trouble was worthwhile, that all will be okay.
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Never Just One Story: A Conversation with Wayne Scott

  • Amy Bond
  • April 21, 2025
Falling in love for the first time is like the first draft of a short story you’re writing— messy and exciting and full of possibilities.
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The Wildness of Grief: Sarah Giragosian’s Mother Octopus

  • Barbara Ungar
  • April 16, 2025
...mothering is entwined with dying throughout this wide-ranging volume, as birth and death are revealed as two sides of one leaf. 
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LittlePuss Press Double Release: On Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event: An Essay & Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction

  • Erin Vachon
  • April 15, 2025
If the LittlePuss books are advanced exercises in cognitive dissonance, Blaxell and Solomonik insist on returning to matters of the heart.
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Masculinity, Grief, and Music: A Conversation with Denne Michele Norris

  • Ursula Villarreal-Moura
  • April 14, 2025
Our capacity for imagination is boundless—and that’s where there’s some porousness between how different people move through the world.
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The First Book: Sam Ashworth

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • April 9, 2025
The human body is the most miraculous machine, and each of us gets one—just one.
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Past is Prelude: Denne Michele Norris’s When The Harvest Comes

  • Kelsey L. Smoot
  • April 8, 2025
Norris’s ability to create interlocking portraits of flawed but somehow still lovable characters is one of her masterful offerings.
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