I want to give readers room to be imaginative within the space of my stories. We’re cocreating a story together as writer and reader.
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The Memory Police is a work of extraordinary artistic defiance, an exploration, urgent and seething, of the abrasive relationship between the role of dissidence in shaping public consciousness and the modern state’s totalitarian proclivities to create a political order founded on the organizational principle of fear.
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On being introduced to new art—ahem, content—via a short story about street hip-hop and crate digging, among other things . Before I knew it, I was surrounded. They were all around me, pressing closer and closer, and their eyes were piercing. Every time I turned my head, it seemed I was making eye contact with
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Ultimately, The Ungrateful Refugee is an instruction book in how to be humane.
In a time where lies about the Afghanistan war are just coming to light, this book of poetry is a refreshing breath of truth that avoids romanticism and offers, at times, a subtle yet searing critique.
No matter the genre, we have become known for curating boundary-pushing writers and for our fiercely punk DIY aesthetic.
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America is the angel that the book is trying to wrestle with, and so, it’s constantly needing to reinvoke and readdress America.
The Illusion of Prominence: An Interview with Shane McCrae Read More »
Thom’s novel dabbles in fantasy, magical realism, and speculative fiction while bringing its own kind of ethos to writing about trans women that the protagonist characterizes early on as “dangerous stories.”
Do people of color, including women of color among the victims, count for anything more than “things” viewed from the outside, in Gaitskill’s work? Noticed by a penetrating (white) gaze, to be sure, but all the same invisible.
Looming Both Large and Invisible: Women of Color in Mary Gaitskill’s This is Pleasure Read More »
Fish are an important symbol in Libyan folk art and can be found as carpets and textile decoration throughout the Arab world. They are a symbol of renewal and a sign of abundant livelihood and fertility, and a good omen for the bearer. The red eye in the fish is a talisman to protect from envy and evil.
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