It's been a tumultuous year for the US in 2017 and here at Pacific
Underground, we've been trying to hold it down on API stories and
experiences. We each picked a clip from episodes in 2017 and we talked about
them and reflected on the changes to our country and ourselves i...
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"In stunningly elegant couplets, Neil Aitken transposes the dreams of
machines and humans into musical, sonically deft lyrics that sing songs of
ccreation, vision, possibility, futurity. These beautifully crafted poems --
evoking the designs of nineteenth-century mathematic...
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Jake Vermaas speaks to poet Lauren Camp about her collection One Hundred
Hungers.
In her new collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation
Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells
overlapping stories of food and ritual...
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An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a
devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that
asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies
and deadly weapons upon itself.
Sarat Chestnut, born...
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“Renee Macalino Rutledge’s The Hour of Daydreams is a stirring and
haunting exploration of marriage, culture, and gender roles. You will find
yourself cheering for Tala and Manolo as they stumble through fears and
desires, and you will celebrate the choral narration with it...
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