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Queering the Wilderness in a Debut Novel
Essayist-cum-novelist Melissa Faliveno on writing addiction and desire with tenderness and teeth
Mar 6 - Samantha Mann
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Drafting the Story Until It Proves You Wrong
Bret Anthony Johnston on Corpus Christi, Texas, returning to the short story in “Encounters With Unexpected Animals,” and the infinite similarities between writing and skateboarding
Mar 2 - Elizabeth Gonzalez James
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Going on Book Tour in Fiction and Then in Real Life
Larissa Pham on titles, the implications of the quotation mark, and the ways art imitates life in her debut novel, “Discipline”
Feb 27 - Kyla D. Walker
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Poetry That Brings a Gardener’s Perceptiveness to Encounters With the Body
Debut author of “Maybe the Body” Asa Drake on moving to Florida, the desire undergirding anxiety, and reading aloud to an unwilling rabbit
Feb 25 - Cameron Quan
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A Novel That Probes Parasocial Relationships Between Fan and Artist
"Superfan" author Jenny Tinghui Zhang discusses what happens when fan culture crosses the line from appreciation into ownership
Feb 20 - Jalen Giovanni Jones
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Patriarchy Is a Serial Killer Stalking Its Own Golden Boys
Christopher Castellani’s “Last Seen” interrogates the darker sides of our most loving relationships
Feb 17 - Preety Sidhu
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A Collaborative Story Collection That Spans Three Languages
Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng discuss trilingual storytelling, creative synthesis, and the challenges of remote collaboration in their symbiotic text, "Timber & Lụa”
Feb 13 - Rory Strong
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Literary Citizenship Looks Like Aaron Burch
The author of “Tacoma” and founder of lit mags “Hobart,” “HAD,” and “Short Story, Long” on finding the novels hidden in short stories
Feb 11 - Sophie Newman
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Colonial Violence and an Old Prophecy Haunt a Chinese Family Across Generations and Continents
Alice Evelyn Yang on the challenge of seeing your parents as people and the role of folklore in her debut novel, “A Beast Slinks Toward Beijing”
Feb 10 - Christ
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The Best Friendships Have a Group Chat Worth Writing About
Emily Nemens’s “Clutch” explores the ups and downs of longstanding, and long-distance, friendships
Feb 6 - Kathleen Boland
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Preserving Hawaiian History and Heritage Through Magical Realism
“The Pōhaku” author Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes reflects on memory, land, and storytelling as inheritance
Feb 3 - Greg Mania
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George Saunders on Putting Your Faith in Revision
The author of “Vigil” talks about writing playfully, revision as the cure for writer’s block, and representing both the light and the dark
Jan 30 - Electric Literature
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A Rock Climbing Novel That Rewrites the Story of the Sport
“Crux” author Gabriel Tallent on climbing as a writer, the logic of friendship, and getting caught between Hemingway and Melville
Jan 28 - Willem Marx
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