We Should Be Embarrassed by Most Things: An Interview with Leyna Krow
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...more“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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...moreIt’s particularly pleasurable to read interview between writers who know each other well. Over at Oxford American, long-time friends Ada Limón and Manuel Gonzales discuss Gonzales’s new novel, The Regional Office Is Under Attack, and what it means to write with an ear to the fantastical: When I first started writing, though, I was deep […]
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