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The Secret Lives of Objects
ARTIFACTS author Natalie Lemle on ancient relics and the stories they contain
Jul 21 - Thomas Schlesser
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A Debut Novel About Individual Agency in Apocalyptic Times
Paige Lewis' debut novel CANON rejects the binaries that those in power use to control the narrative
Jun 16 - Mandana Chaffa
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Memoir Is a Form of Drag
“Drag Thing” author Gabe Montesanti and “Lipstick” author Eileen G’Sell on self-adornment, performance, and the power of radical reinvention
Jun 12 - Gabe Montesanti and Eileen G’Sell
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Writer’s Block Is Part of Maggie O’Farrell’s Process
The author of "Hamnet" and "Land" on literary playlists, knowing when to stop writing, and lime-filled dark chocolate
Jun 9 - Electric Literature
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A Novel That Reinvents the Modern American Abroad Story
In "No God but Us," two queer Afghan men navigate empire, desire, and the fault lines of shared identity
May 29 - Leila C. Nadir
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These Poets Are Writing Queer Afterlives
Steven Reigns and Sara Youngblood Gregory discuss generational memory, the queer dance floor, and why certain stories must be told
May 25 - Sara Youngblood Gregory and Steven Reigns
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Tracing the Connection Between Chronic Illness and Climate Change
In “Body Weather,” Lorraine Boissoneault maps her body’s systems onto weather patterns
May 20 - Leslie Nguyen-Okwu
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This Novel’s Shifting Perspectives Examine Foster Care from All Sides
Rachel León’s “How We See the Gray” is a compassionate, nuanced look at those impacted by the foster care system
May 18 - Jen St. Jude
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A Deaf Manifesto on Motherhood
Sara Nović’s “Mother Tongue” is both a sharp history of deaf ableism in America and tender examination of family
May 13 - D/Annie Liontas
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A Debut Novel Where Plastic Surgery Obscures and Reveals a Mother’s True Self
Through cosmetic surgery and reality TV, Sarah Wang's "New Skin" tells a mother-daughter story of immigration and assimilation
May 12 - Cherry Lou Sy
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Reckoning With the Desires of China’s One-Child Generation
M Lin’s debut story collection “The Memory Museum” examines women forging identities that transcend the U.S.-Chinese binary
May 11 - Rebecca Bihn-Wallace
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A Campus Novel For a Post-Ironic World
Debut novelist Avigayl Sharp discusses Nabokov, sincerity, and writing trauma without revealing it in “Offseason”
May 8 - Lennie Roeber-Tsiongas
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Writing Is a Way to Have Futurity
“The Future” author Monica Ferrell on motherhood, mortality, and how writing carries part of us into the future
May 6 - Zachary Pace
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