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How We Write the Dead: A Conversation with Vikram Paralkar

  • Sarah Blake
  • February 17, 2020
Vikram Paralkar discusses his debut novel, NIGHT THEATER.
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A Metaphysical Inquiry: Nick Laird’s Feel Free

  • Jared Spears
  • November 22, 2019
The work maintains a wondering backward, as it were, tracing the varied details of lived experience.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #20: This Mortal Coil

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 10, 2017
Socrates: All men are mortal. The Storming Bohemian: I’m a man. Socrates: Right, so… The Storming Bohemian: Uh oh.
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And So I Present Myself

  • Kyle Williams
  • April 19, 2016
The urge to claim a space for the self collides and colludes with the urge to construct a self to fit the space. Sallie Tisdale shares a beautiful essay from…
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GENERATION GAP #6: An Advice Columnist Asks For Advice

  • Veronica Mittnacht
  • October 22, 2010
Although we all talked about keeping in touch, we knew it was really a goodbye dinner.
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