Interviews
Lilly Dancyger Wants You to Embrace Your Bad First Draft
Resisting the urge to self-edit to the point of paralysis, and other writing advice
Dec 12 - Electric Literature
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A Fantasy Novel That Forces Us to Face Reality
Kacen Callender’s "Queen of the Conquered" faces issues of oppression, privilege, and complicity head on
Dec 5 - Jennifer Baker
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“HoodWitch” Celebrates the Power of Black Femme Witchcraft
In their new poetry collection, Faylita Hicks communes with mothers, children, ancestors, and gods
Dec 4 - Tyrese L. Coleman
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Queer Pleasure Is a Form of Resistance
"Cantoras" imagines the lives of five queer Uruguayan women during the dictatorship
Dec 3 - Alexia Arthurs
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‘Friday Black’ Is a Brutal, Brilliant Satire of American Racism and Capitalism
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talks to Mychal Denzel Smith about how working in retail inspired his book
Nov 29 - Mychal Denzel Smith
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Did Mary Toft Give Birth to Rabbits?
Dexter Palmer on Elizabeth Holmes and other hoaxers
Nov 26 - Alicia Kort
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“Up in the Main House” Illuminates the Everyday Lives of Working-Class Bangladeshis
Nadeem Zaman on leaving America and finding literary success in Dhaka
Nov 25 - Ikhtisad Ahmed
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A Restless Housewife, a Closeted Vagabond, and Lady Luck
Shannon Pufahl's "On Swift Horses" explores gambling and self-discovery in an era before gay visibility
Nov 21 - Jennifer Baker
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The Real Mystery in “Heaven, My Home” Is How to Survive in a Racist Society
Attica Locke's latest crime novel wrestles with innocence and forgiveness
Nov 20 - Maya Davis
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“Salt Slow” Finds Liberation in Monstrous Women
Julia Armfield on how horror is the only genre that takes women’s fear seriously
Nov 19 - Ellie Broughton
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