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| Tayyba Kanwal’s linked story collection, Talking With Boys, stretches from Lahore to Dubai to Houston, spans decades, and juxtaposes magic, absurdity, reality TV, and the interpretation of ancient religious texts. But it’s the connections that matter ...more | |
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These stories are about mining, about copper, about magic—about characters fighting to survive in a place that is both poison and home. And I was lucky enough to interview the author about it. You can read what we said here: https://necessaryfiction. ...more |
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I was honored to talk to Patricia Lockwood about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid. Read the interview here: https://therumpus.net/20 ...more |
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I was thrilled to interview John Wiswell about WEARING THE LION, radical forgiveness, disability, found family, and the way his Heracles wins battles by flipping conflict into friendship. Read the interview here: https://splitlipthemag.com/interviews. ...more |
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| The Church of Divine Electricity is a speculative story collection that uses dark humor, science fiction, magic, and inventive forms to create worlds and characters that are dystopian, twisted, funny, warm, and also very much our own. The collection ...more | |
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| I had the honor of interviewing Maria Reva about her (absolutely stunning) novel ENDLING. We talked about about structural play, narrative power, and how the violence and uncertainty of today’s world must reflect in the upheaval of the novel. You can ...more | |
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I wrote about the stunning opening to this book and the way it unsettles, dazzles, and even decenters humanity: https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/c... ...more |
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| The Confines takes a grimly absurd look at marriage, reimagining love, attraction, and the social conventions that bind human beings. In stories set in India and the United States, eccentric characters struggle to express themselves—through binge eat ...more | |
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| These Worn Bodies is a collection of flash fiction that is wondrous in its form and its imagination. Bodies are deconstructed to discrete parts (boobs! orgasms!) or made of paper or popcorn. Flies are elevated to main characters. Agency is for everyo ...more | |
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| In WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE, the landscape of the American Southwest is vivid and terrifying, but the situations are starkly in-between: houseboats and seaplanes, a college road-trip with a permanent detour, seasonal ski workers, a teacher hoping for a ...more | |