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What does a growth of new grass on a hillside in spring make you feel? Is it a mixture of nostalgia and hope? Or what does a distant mountain range wreathed in a crown of clouds make you feel?
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As we go, we are breathlessly held in an in-between state, a limbo, a transition.
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Wymer is grappling with survival, with the cost of the duplicity of identity.
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Eric Tran discusses his new collection, THE GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER.
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Clare Beams discusses her debut novel, THE ILLNESS LESSON.
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Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen discuss their recent work.
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Adam Nemett discusses his debut novel, WE CAN SAVE US ALL.
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Chris Jennings talks about his new book Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, incremental reform, Transcendentalists, Shakers, and creating a more perfect future.
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On its surface, The Revenant is a story about revenge and survival. On a deeper level, it’s about how those two motivations factor into a generational battle between the (God-like) forces of nature and industry—a sort of perverted Armageddon.
...moreFrom Lincoln’s famous love of quoting Shakespeare to George Bush’s prodigious reading habits, American politics have always mingled with the literary pantheon. Now that Sarah Palin is back in the news for her endorsement of Donald Trump, Jeet Heer traces her literary roots to Walt Whitman: This is democratic verse, that tries to encompass the […]
...moreThis slideshow is a few weeks old, obviously, because it was posted for Independence Day, but there’s no wrong time to read about queer American history. Some topics covered: Was James Buchanan the first gay president? How important was same-sex attraction to the transcendentalist movement? And, most importantly, just how early did San Francisco come […]
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