This Famous Writer Is Ruining Her Writing
“Fictions” by Anna Hogeland, recommended by Preety Sidhu for Electric Literature
Mar 23 - Anna Hogeland
RR Issue No. 722
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Her Drama Is Tolerable When It’s Performed Onstage
An excerpt from AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE by Beryl Bainbridge, recommended by Lucy Scholes
Mar 16 - Beryl Bainbridge
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This Cocky Stranger Is Offering to Kill for Me
An excerpt from WHIDBEY by T Kira Māhealani Madden, recommended by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Mar 9 - T Kira Māhealani Madden
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