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Happily Never After: A Conversation with A.A. Balaskovits
A.A. Balaskovits discusses her new story collection, STRANGE FOLK YOU’LL NEVER MEET.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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What Turns Up: A Conversation with Peg Alford Pursell
Peg Alford Pursell discusses her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Salt
A flash-fire covered the horizon all around and behind her, and my mother glowed genuine blue. I saw her skeleton, or maybe her white-hot soul. Something flew up and around our heads.
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This Week in Short Fiction
Some people write about dystopian futures, or reimagined folktales, or ghosts, or science fiction. Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of the upcoming story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, does it all. The debut collection, out this month…
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Stranger than Real Life
At Lit Hub, Tobias Carroll discusses the enduring appeal of strange fairy tales, and their influence on contemporary fiction: They remind us that the larger world is inherently complex, that the lessons imparted by stories of wicked creatures and good-hearted…
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Kid Lit Before It Was Kid Lit
A recent Slate Explainer details what children read before the advent of “children’s literature.” The answer: “Epic poems, religious literature, romances, and Aesop.” Looks like English kids had it better than most, with their stories about adventurous knights and talking foxes,…