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Divorcing Dad Rock from Gender and Genre: An Interview with Niko Stratis

  • Elizabeth Teets
  • June 25, 2025
I've developed my own framework for what I want dad rock to be. To me, it is a genre that is about people. I'm trying to approach it with very loose terms to not give away all my secrets, but a genre where the person who is making the music is not telling you what to do but is imparting some knowledge they have learned based on mistakes that they themselves have made
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A Perfect Sketch of a Moment: Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures

  • Guillermo Manning
  • May 16, 2023
"Memory is not a journalist's tool. Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clear."
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I Never Thought I’d Write a Book Like This: An Interview with Nicole Chung

  • Emily Maloney
  • April 21, 2023
It's my year of Banana.
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Challenging the Length and Notion of Storytelling: A conversation with Davon Loeb

  • Rachel León
  • January 25, 2023
. . . good writing and good storytelling has to exceed the relatable . . .
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Telling our necessary truths: A Conversation with Janet Rodriguez

  • Jeri Frederickson
  • December 28, 2022
Only after this memoir was I able to see the Kafka truth: We are telling our necessary truths. We are the necessary heroes of our own narratives. Somewhere inside all of it, there is a collective truth, one we can safely tell. 
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How to Write an Honest Memoir: A Conversation with Evette Dionne

  • Gabriella Souza
  • December 21, 2022
I don’t ever do anything from a place of fear—which is an odd place for me to be in because I have anxiety—but I have to [step into places of discomfort] because that’s where growth happens. If you’re comfortable, you’re not growing.
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Apples, Sonnet Crowns, and Other Containers of Trauma: Talking with Jeri Frederickson

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • December 20, 2021
Jeri Frederickson discusses her debut collection, YOU ARE NOT LOST.
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Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour

  • Kathryn Walkiewicz
  • November 24, 2021
To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
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Disclosing Disability and Finding Freedom: Talking with James Tate Hill

  • Jess deCourcy Hinds
  • November 24, 2021
James Tate Hill discusses his new memoir, BLIND MAN’S BLUFF.
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Finding Meaning at the Edge of Reality: Talking with Elissa Washuta

  • Greg Mania
  • November 17, 2021
Elissa Washuta discusses her new essay collection, WHITE MAGIC.
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Facing Her Truth: A Conversation with Ariel Henley

  • Liz Button
  • November 3, 2021
Ariel Henley discusses her debut memoir, A FACE FOR PICASSO.
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You Can’t Stop Rivers from Running: Talking with Rajiv Mohabir

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • October 27, 2021
Rajiv Mohabir discusses ANTIMAN and CUTLISH.
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