Pulitzer prize and National Book Award-finalist Christine Schutt talks with
David Naimon about her latest story collection Pure Hollywood. “Nobody
writes like Schutt . . . and her latest collection is the perfect entry point
for readers new to her work . . . In each of t...
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“This is more than Mitchell S. Jackson’s story, and as he traces his
great-grandparents’ exodus from Alabama to Portland and the subsequent
lives of his relatives…he captures the cyclical nature of poverty and
neglect…The prose is a stunning mix of internal monologue and...
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“Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was
missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which
becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with
language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep a...
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's memoir, The End of San Francisco (City Lights
2013), won a Lambda Literary Award in transgender nonfiction, and her most
recent anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges
to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Des...
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How does a body do what it does: make love, mistakes, create life, exist
after life; how does a body evolve, celebrate, regret, reconsider its big and
small moments: these are the passionate concerns of Alicia Rabins’ Fruit
Geode, a book that I could not stop reading onc...
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