A self-defined misfit makes a powerful case for not fitting in—for
recognizing the beauty, and difficulty, in forging an original path.
A misfit is a person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly, or
this: a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and en...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Panio Gianopoulos, author of the story collection
How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money.
Panio’s stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Tin House, Northwest
Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, Big Fiction, The Brooklyn ...
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VI KHI NAO was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. She is the author most
recently of Umbilical Hospital; the short stories collection, A Brief
Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction
Prize in 2016; the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press...
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The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom is a place where people dream
of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental
degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives
in the strange, elemental language which ...
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Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on
the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having
survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself
hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumat...
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a poet, essayist , and master of fantasy
and speculative fiction. In this interview recorded in 2000, she talks about
her start as a writer and the creation of several of her greatest works.
Hosted by Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wol...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Paul Cohen, author of the novel The Glamshack,
Paul's first book and the first publication from independent press 7.13
Books. The novel was nominated for a Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award,
and was included in the “Most Anticipated Small Press...
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“Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to
an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. It’s a wild thing, this
book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists
from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeye...
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"In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for
unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry
of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of
non-intersectional understandings of identit...
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