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i have sooooooo much to read this semester but it’s all stuff i’m excited to read so let’s get it

“Silence” by Lucia Berlin

“River of Names” by Dorothy Allison

AImost always, we were raped, my cousins and I. That was some
\ kind of joke, too.
"What's a South Carolina virgin?"
"At's a ten-year-old can run

I like the idea of how the form in “The Way We Live Now” by Susan Sontag plays out, with a bunch of random characters describing the actions of one, but it’s so hard to follow. I had to skip it. It’s also so long for something playing with that kind of thing.

“Salvador Late or Early” by Sandra Cisneros, on the other hand, is a concise and beautiful little snapshot of a story.

“The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich was really something else.