Studying the City of Angels: A Conversation with Nina Revoyr
Nina Revoyr discusses her new novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
...moreNina Revoyr discusses her new novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
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...moreTHERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.
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...more“Right now California is burning and yet there’s snow on mountains that I can also see from my window.”
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...moreThe way the book is organized reflects Allen’s experience: the ability to meet a book with skepticism and find much to be admired.
...more“I was diving straight into the wave, right into the source of my greatest grief.”
...moreMyriam Gurba discusses her new memoir, MEAN, her writing process, and why she has hope for patriarchy’s dissolution.
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...morePraise the family that tethers me. Praise the well-used kitchen utensils and scoured mixing bowls and butter knives, thick slabs of jelly on the bread.
...moreOne thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren’t as safe.
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...moreDiasporic communities live inside a host nation, but they also live with difference.
...moreReading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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