What to Read When You Want Spooky Stories from Around the World
Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto share a reading list to celebrate TINY NIGHTMARES.
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Posts Tagged: revenge
Alive and Slippery: Talking with Megan Giddings
Megan Giddings discusses her debut novel, LAKEWOOD.
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Too Close to Home
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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“Everywhere They Hurt Little Girls”: Female Revenge in Game of Thrones
In Westeros, revenge mostly operates within the feminine realm…
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Multitudes: (Re) Writing Mother
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
When those in power stifle the voices of survivors, they find other ways of expressing their truths.
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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. If you mention people in an unflattering way without naming them, they will never recognize themselves in your story— even if you name actual details […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Under The Skin
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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