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. . . we wake up in human bodies every day and move forward with our lives, but every second of the day we’re thinking ahead, we’re thinking backward. Unfortunately, we’re rarely in the present time.
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Jennifer Fliss discusses her debut story collection, THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL.
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Steven Reigns discusses his newest poetry collection, A QUILT FOR DAVID.
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Elissa Washuta discusses her new essay collection, WHITE MAGIC.
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Amid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
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The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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Trisha R. Thomas discusses her new novel, WHAT PASSES AS LOVE.
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Mai Der Vang discusses her new poetry collection, YELLOW RAIN.
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Jo Lloyd discusses her debut story collection, SOMETHING WONDERFUL.
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Cai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.
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Willa C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
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Research is not separate from living; they are blended rivers of experience.
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Kevin Simmonds discusses his new collection, THE MONSTER I AM TODAY.
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Joy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
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Author Mariana Oliver and translator Julia Sanches discuss MIGRATORY BIRDS.
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A word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.
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Leesa Cross-Smith discusses her newest novel, THIS CLOSE TO OKAY.
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Melissa Scholes Young discusses her new novel, THE HIVE.
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Vince Granata discusses his debut memoir, EVERYTHING IS FINE.
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Megan Culhane Galbraith discusses her debut book, THE GUILD OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.
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Alex McElroy discusses their debut novel, THE ATMOSPHERIANS.
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Robert L. Shuster discusses his debut novel, TO ZENZI.
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Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
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Becka Mara McKay discusses her new poetry collection, THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION.
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Bhaswati Ghosh discusses her debut novel, VICTORY COLONY, 1950.
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Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio discusses her first book, THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS.
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Sarah Smarsh discusses her new book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL.
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