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Join NOW!This week, the art and literature magazine Paper Darts has a short story about the expectations and invasions of walking through the world in a female body. Not the obvious, more aggressive ones, the catcalling or man-spreading; instead, “Personal Space” by Susan Fedynak details the subtler, quieter transgressions, some perpetuated by other women, some perpetuated […]
...moreAt the end of the day, maybe the responsibility to publish diverse perspectives falls onto publishers and editors. Over at Paper Darts, Rachel Charlene Lewis argues that if we really want to diversify literature, editors and publishers need to be a part of the effort.
...morePaper Darts converses with our own essays editor Roxane Gay. Topics of discussion include Edith Wharton, writing about small-town America, literary erotica, teaching, and crossing lines. “Life is pretty cruel so I like writing about both the petty and more significant cruelties we have to face. Is it uncomfortable? Yes. But so is life. It […]
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