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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree

  • Kristin Gourlay
  • March 9, 2021
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton

  • Donna Hemans
  • March 1, 2021
Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
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The Gothic Horror of the Fourth Trimester: Talking with Julia Fine

  • Sara Petersen
  • February 24, 2021
Julia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
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Reading the Landscape of the Past: Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest

  • Sangamithra Iyer
  • December 23, 2020
Learning to read a landscape can reveal a deep history.
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Community Destroyed, Memories Reconstructed: A Conversation with Vivian Gibson

  • Morgan Forde
  • October 21, 2020
Vivian Gibson discusses her debut memoir, THE LAST CHILDREN OF MILL CREEK.
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Identity as a Hall of Mirrors: Descent by Lauren Russell

  • Jesi Buell
  • October 7, 2020
This book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
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He Comes While We Are Walking

  • Liliana Torpey
  • October 5, 2020
It doesn’t feel good, does it? I didn’t see it coming either.
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Trauma as Inheritance: Adam P. Frankel’s The Survivors

  • Diane Gottlieb
  • August 5, 2020
The survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins

  • Donna Hemans
  • August 3, 2020
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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The Poem Must Forgive: E. J. Koh’s The Magical Language of Others

  • Bessie Taliaferro
  • June 3, 2020
Empathy and forgiveness must begin with understanding.
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Living with Our Ghosts: A Conversation with Maisy Card

  • Greg Mania
  • March 23, 2020
Maisy Card discusses her debut novel, THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY.
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Rice Cake Love

  • Breann Wong
  • December 5, 2019
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
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