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House Rules: Lessons in Autofiction

  • Marie
  • April 4, 2018
You try to pass yourself off as a rock and the water just laughs. You try anyway.
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Cool Pope

  • Brandon Hicks
  • March 11, 2018
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The Meaning of Truth: A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise by Sandra Allen

  • Caroline Macon Fleischer
  • January 24, 2018
The way the book is organized reflects Allen’s experience: the ability to meet a book with skepticism and find much to be admired.
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Voices on Addiction: Dead Eyes and Bob Barker Crocs

  • Janine Canty
  • January 18, 2018
Broken people are drawn to other broken people. Comparing scars. Laying belly to belly. Two similar pieces of different puzzles.
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After the Telling

  • Cindy House
  • January 16, 2018
We want to protect our children from everything, even sometimes ourselves.
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Unconventional Board-Twirlers

  • Brandon Hicks
  • November 26, 2017
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Blue, Blue Windows: On Writing and Helplessness in the Age of Trump

  • Beth Boyle Machlan
  • November 16, 2017
The brain in the jar wants out, you know. It just can’t do anything about it.
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The Peep King’s Legacy: A Family Portrait

  • Rachel Inberg
  • October 31, 2017
The day after Hugh Hefner died, I received a text from my sister that our grandfather was starring alongside James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal in HBO's new series, The Deuce.
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Voices on Addiction: Travels with My Daughter

  • TJ Wood
  • October 31, 2017
I imagine the box of obsidian flakes and chunks at home—gathered from explorations in the desert. Their edges cut through skin, draw blood.
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Death, Satan, and Cats: A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine

  • Reneysh Vittal
  • October 4, 2017
Rabih Alameddine discusses his newest novel, The Angel of History, surviving the AIDS epidemic, and the role of religion in his life and writing.
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Voices on Addiction: Zombie Nation

  • Alanna Bailey
  • October 3, 2017
Sometimes life is so big and so loud and being a human being in the world is so much I feel overwhelmed and need a cocoon.
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Basura

  • Emily Withnall
  • September 21, 2017
[T]erms like "white trash" and basura most accurately reveal those who are doing the defining. Consider what we throw away, and why. Look at what we throw away. Think about the reasons why.
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