In “Let the Poets Govern,” Camonghne Felix considers fugitivity, political responsibility, and poetic form as a blueprint for resistance
Jordy Rosenberg’s “Night Night Fawn” is a Marxist, trans, hysterical accounting of a terminally ill Jewish mother unrepentantly looking back on her life
Kelsey L. Smoot’s debut poetry collection “SOULMATE AS A VERB” asks what it looks like to insist upon love as a deliberate choice
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
Larissa Pham on titles, the implications of the quotation mark, and the ways art imitates life in her debut novel, “Discipline”
Debut author of “Maybe the Body” Asa Drake on moving to Florida, the desire undergirding anxiety, and reading aloud to an unwilling rabbit
"Superfan" author Jenny Tinghui Zhang discusses what happens when fan culture crosses the line from appreciation into ownership
Christopher Castellani’s “Last Seen” interrogates the darker sides of our most loving relationships
Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng discuss trilingual storytelling, creative synthesis, and the challenges of remote collaboration in their symbiotic text, "Timber & Lụa”
The author of “Tacoma” and founder of lit mags “Hobart,” “HAD,” and “Short Story, Long” on finding the novels hidden in short stories
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”
Emily Nemens’s “Clutch” explores the ups and downs of longstanding, and long-distance, friendships
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