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An Excerpt from “First Time, Long Time”
He was more handsome in person, somewhere in the shallow end of his sixties, wearing a soft-looking black sweater and smelling of expensive soap. I could picture the place where the soap was purchased: one of those quiet, ritzy stores…
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I Thought America Was the Thief: Mastery and Assimilation in Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place”
Lately, in my social media feed, I’ve seen a James Baldwin quote surface between news stories and advertisements: “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This…
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The First Book: Tennessee Hill
The process of querying agents was filled with no’s that, though sad, each felt like a gentle push in the right direction towards my eventual agent Elizabeth Pratt. Once Elizabeth and I teamed up, everything happened rapidly. She did so…
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What to Read When You Want to Destabilize the Binaries Between Good and Bad
Among the 14 “Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture” as outlined by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, are “Either/or Thinking,” “Fear of Open Conflict,” “Belief in One Right Way,” and “Perfectionism.” As a white person who came of age in predominantly…
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The First Book: Daniel Tam-Claiborne
I began writing Transplants in earnest in 2019 during the last semester of my MFA program. I had the truly great fortune of working with Lauren Groff who, when given the option between helping me touch up my existing short…
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What to Read When Your Ex Takes the Dog
Books helped me claw myself from bedrot. I dove into the page, and now have ten stories to thank for resurrecting me from my despondency. For helping me to feel again.
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What to Read When Life is in Chaos
How Books Can Be a Framework When Everything Else Feels Like It’s Falling Apart
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Voices on Addiction: A Small, Dry Place
My earliest impressions of my father are like the negatives in a reel of over-exposed 35mm film, the kind of images that were returned from the photo lab with quality control stickers, marked “light damaged.”
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What to Read When You Want to Find Mystery in the Ordinary
…I find myself most excited about writing that is focused on the concrete facts of daily life.
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The First Book: Veena Dinavahi
Make your own meaning. It sounds cliché, but I’ve come to accept it as a survival skill.
