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mortality

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Losing the World

  • Amanda Montei
  • June 16, 2020
When we begin life, language is play.
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Permadeath

  • Marlin M. Jenkins
  • June 16, 2020
All your efforts and still you must reckon with this end.
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Everything Is Alive: Dunce by Mary Ruefle

  • Monica Uszerowicz
  • May 8, 2020
Ruefle’s memories are as alive as the bodies holding them.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • April 27, 2020
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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Too Close to Home

  • Ali Black
  • March 2, 2020
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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Body of Nonsense

  • Sophie Amado
  • January 20, 2020
It is winter, and I’ve been thinking a lot about Samuel Beckett.
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Turning and Turning: Jericho Brown’s The Tradition

  • Rebecca Lehmann
  • November 8, 2019
[T]his is a book in direct conversation with literary tradition.
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No One Can Be Saved: A Conversation with Amanda Goldblatt

  • Diane Cook
  • September 3, 2019
Amanda Goldblatt discusses her debut novel, HARD MOUTH.
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Mortality Probability

  • Mariel Murray
  • July 22, 2019
The first thing I realized while reading these tables: To be born is risky business.
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Trudging Down Death Road

  • Tega Oghenechovwen
  • July 15, 2019
Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
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Open Letter to Our Body

  • Yoshiko Iwai
  • June 24, 2019
The only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
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Voices on Addiction: All the Ways to Save Your Life

  • David M. Olsen
  • March 14, 2019
But we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
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