From the Archive: Propelled by Questions: Animal by Dorothea Lasky
The animal spirit of poetry brings us closer to our own humanity.
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...moreIf this were the end, May needed to see.
...moreDolly Alderton discusses her new novel, GHOSTS.
...moreJacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
...moreJanice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
...more“Tick tock tick tock,” Raven says. “It’s my departure or yours.”
...more“The grief felt like giving birth, these waves of pain and then receiving.”
...more“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”
...moreJ. Nicole Jones discusses her debut memoir, LOW COUNTRY.
...moreJulia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
...moreI lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
...moreWe make a home, in other words, by letting in our ghosts.
...morePatricia Spears Jones discusses her body of work, the future of poetry, and more.
...more“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
...moreMaisy Card discusses her debut novel, THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY.
...moreA permanent job doesn’t need her, and neither do her boyfriends.
...moreKatharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
...moreGhosts, like women as people, are just a theory.
...more“I wanted the thing to feel as ordinary as bread.”
...moreI remember driving a bird mad once.
...moreLisa Lenzo discusses her new story collection, UNBLINKING.
...more“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
...moreI want a PhD in how to want, effortlessly, to be alive.
...moreSusan Blumberg-Kason, co-editor of HONG KONG NOIR, discusses the new anthology.
...moreRahna Reiko Rizzuto discusses her newest book, SHADOW CHILD.
...moreStanding alone before the house, I think: love can be a sad, strange thing.
...moreIn the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
...moreSometimes a story suddenly changes.
...moreRachel Lyon discusses her debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, artistic communities, the quotidian nature of the supernatural, and hyper-gentrification.
...moreGrace shook her head, surprised by both her reluctance to speak and her impulse to lie. She had seen many photos of Rebecca.
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