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There Are No Rules: A Conversation with Jo Lloyd
The joy of reading story collections is that there is no single construction that can make them stick in your mind forever; some express their depth through the intimacy of a moment while others reach...
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Starting with Fire: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet and author of the Walt Whitman Award-winning poetry collection, Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017). The daughter of Hmong refugees who fled Laos after the Vietnam...
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Searching for Who We Want to Be: A Conversation with Trisha R. Thomas
Trisha R. Thomas’s latest work of fiction is a departure from the Nappily Ever After contemporary fiction series for which is widely known. In What Passes as Love, a historical novel set in the Civil...
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Performing Violence: A Conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
“They hung that name on you at birth, but Virginia was never your home.” This opening line of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s short story, “Virginia Is Not Your Home,” stands in stark contrast to the life of...
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I have been told, lately, to take control of many things. Fertility testing companies have ordered me to take control of my reproductive lifespan. Skin care brands have instructed me to take control of...
View ArticleThe Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
“For all of my mothers, each of whom fed me in her own way, and for everyone whose voices have gone unheard.” – Grace M. Cho In her lifetime, writer and academic Grace M. Cho has had three mothers....
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Finding Meaning at the Edge of Reality: Talking with Elissa Washuta
This book called out to me from its display at one of the independent bookstores I frequent. I was already on my way out and made a mental note to pick it up during my next haul. Weeks went by without...
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Filling in the Missing Patchwork: A Conversation with Steven Reigns
Steven Reigns, the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, has published over a dozen chapbooks and poetry collections, including Inheritance (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011), and Your Dead Body Is My...
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Life as a Series of Small Gestures: Talking with Jennifer Fliss
There are more than forty distinct and dangerous worlds in Jennifer Fliss’s debut story collection, The Predatory Animal Ball, out now from Okay Donkey. With a multitude of characters and keenly drawn...
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Positive Tension and Unstructured Time: A Conversation with Courtney Maum
In Courtney Maum’s most recent book and debut memoir, The Year of the Horses (Tin House 2022), the acclaimed novelist takes readers on an exploration of the places we fear the most: the sites and homes...
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