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Swimming Pool

Poetry by Aleš Šteger, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

White Witchery

By Elissa Washuta

Lauren Groff: Stories Should Ask Difficult Questions

By Amy Brady

The Suit

Fiction by Aurelie Sheehan

Mary Wang

Mary Wang is the multimedia editor of Guernica. She runs the Miscellaneous Files interview series, in which she talks to writers about their practice through the screenshots, notes, and other digital marginalia found on the writer's devices.
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SIMA docs Video AmericasClimate & Environment

Presented by SIMA: The Super Salmon

By Mary Wang February 15, 2019
Watch the gorgeously-shot, deliriously-paced documentary that follows an Alaskan salmon on an unlikely journey on "the Mount Everest of rivers," as residents consider the costs and benefits of a mega-dam.
Valeria Luiselli
Miscellaneous Files Interview Lit World

Valeria Luiselli: “There are always fingerprints of the archive in my books.”

By Mary Wang February 12, 2019
The writer opens her archives to reveal maps, recordings, and questionnaires that have fueled her work—including photos that didn’t make it into her new novel.
Miscellaneous Files Interview Lit World

Anelise Chen: “Then I changed it to third-person clam, and that was exactly how it was meant to be.”

By Mary Wang January 18, 2019
The writer shares a collection of digital fragments that have shaped her practice, including an image depicting cycling exercises, a photo of Kafka’s diaries, and a video of her mother’s first time seeing snow.
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SIMA docs Video Justice

Presented by SIMA: The Walls

By Mary Wang December 21, 2018
Watch this month's documentary, in which a prison debate team joins forces with college students to discuss gun control, even though some inmates have landed there precisely for firearm-related crimes.
Jabari Asim
Miscellaneous Files Interview Lit World

Miscellaneous Files: Jabari Asim

By Mary Wang December 10, 2018
The writer Jabari Asim on stories as instruments of power, how he places himself in the lineage of African American literature, and how writers of color should navigate an onerous publishing landscape.
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SIMA docs Video

SIMA Docs

By Mary Wang November 16, 2018
Our new documentary series, presented by SIMA.
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SIMA docs Video

Presented by SIMA: Noise Runs

By Mary Wang November 7, 2018
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a group of young Haitians produces a radical newspaper to democratize information and offer hope to the population.
Miscellaneous Files Interview Lit World

Miscellaneous Files: Ottessa Moshfegh

By Mary Wang November 6, 2018
The writer Ottessa Moshfegh on the line between sensitivity and sentimentality, the universal experience of sadness, and the influence of Nirvana.
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Miscellaneous Files Interview Arts & CultureLit World

Miscellaneous Files: Olivia Laing

By Mary Wang October 4, 2018
In the first installment of our multimedia interview series, Olivia Laing uses screenshots to explain how the secretarial parts of writing can be both pleasurable and productive.
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