Interview

Aya de Leon: Fiction of Empathy and Escapism

By Ilana Masad August 13, 2019

The author of the Justice Hustlers series talks about writing at the nexus of consciousness raising and commercial fiction.

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Fiction

In the Grass

Fiction by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell June 3, 2019

Those third and fourth nights, I cried and wailed. On the morning of the fifth day, my eyes were so swollen my father took one look at me and said, “Shiori, your face—it looks like the goldfish put a curse on you.”

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Fiction

Pledge

Fiction by Anton DiSclafani January 17, 2019

He started by pushing her onto the bed and kissing her, and it was then that Kenlee knew she did not want to be there. She did nothing to stop Robbie. It would not matter if she had.

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Interview

Tyrese Coleman: Writing the Truth, Unbound by Genre

By Sarah Kasbeer December 5, 2018

The author of How to Sit discusses her mixed genre, multi-generational essays about black girlhood, womanhood, trauma, and triumph.

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Essay

Listening for Ghost-Voices

By Anita Roy November 9, 2018

A novel borne out of an earthquake, a departed friend, and a translation from which lost voices rise.

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Lives

When Naming Isn’t Enough

By Rebecca Hazelwood August 31, 2018

No matter how inexperienced I was, I didn't deserve what he did.

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Fiction

The Enumerated Downfalls of the Pavilion in the Hinterlands

By Reno Evangelista August 7, 2018

“Very good,” said the man. “I am the demon who lives in this manor and I will impart to you, my guest, any truth in all the world. What is your question?”

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Essay

A Long Hot Walk to the Mormon Promised Land

By Miles Fuller May 7, 2018

Sexually frustrated teens in period costumes undertake a Mormon pioneer trek. The worst part isn't the heat. It's the singing.

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Interview

Chris Kraus: After Kathy Acker

By Nicole Miller October 16, 2017

The novelist, critic, and biographer on radical localism, the art of compensation, and the editor as auteur.

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Interview

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

By Dan Sheehan and Téa Obreht July 20, 2017

Téa Obreht and Dan Sheehan consider the finest on-camera smooches.

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Larry Clark’s Teenage Lust, and My Own

By Lacy Warner July 13, 2017

As a teenager, I was obsessed with a sexy photograph. When I grew up, it looked different.

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