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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam

  • Josh English
  • January 20, 2021
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.
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What to Read When You Want Spooky Stories from Around the World

  • Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
  • October 16, 2020
Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto share a reading list to celebrate TINY NIGHTMARES.
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Alive and Slippery: Talking with Megan Giddings

  • C Pam Zhang
  • March 9, 2020
Megan Giddings discusses her debut novel, LAKEWOOD.
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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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“Everywhere They Hurt Little Girls”: Female Revenge in Game of Thrones

  • Patricia Grisafi
  • August 10, 2017
In Westeros, revenge mostly operates within the feminine realm...
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Multitudes: (Re) Writing Mother

  • Christine No
  • May 30, 2017
I like to listen to my mother’s voice; the sounds she makes in an English-Korean mashup; we are each the other’s dictionary.
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Vigilantism and Orange is the New Black: The Anxiety of Injustice

  • Miranda Wojciechowski
  • August 4, 2016
When those in power stifle the voices of survivors, they find other ways of expressing their truths.
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Revenge Writing

  • Victor Luo
  • June 25, 2015
After about two years of writing essays, I learned about something I will hereby in these pages name the Passive-Aggressive Writer’s Conundrum: People, particularly non-writers, are an optimistic, delusional bunch.…
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Under The Skin

  • Louise Fabiani
  • January 24, 2015
Part misandry-based revenge fantasy, part science fiction mash-up, Under the Skin weasels its way into your reptilian brain from its first baffling frames.
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