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Fragments of a Meandering Life: Review of A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Nearly every story in the collection is captivating in its constant motion and minute detail.
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To Death and Back: Review of Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, pulsates with the everyday horrors of being…
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A Case for “the surreal and the strange”: Interview with Anna Vangala Jones, Sudden Fiction Guest Judge and Author of Turmeric & Sugar
When I picture a flash fiction story done well, a story that’s getting so much across…
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“He is Sawdust in the Wind”: Review of The Lumberjack’s Dove by GennaRose Nethercott
The Lumberjack’s story is attractive because it offers readers some folkloric mysticism in the time of…
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On Craft and Contradictions: Interview with Jen Fawkes, Author of Mannequin and Wife
A few weeks ago, I sat down (virtually) with short story writer Jen Fawkes to discuss…
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Out of Body, Out of Time: Review of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
By way of the supernatural, Saunders splices through the content of history textbooks and captures the…
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Press Unwind: Review of Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”
Spaghetti. A missing cat. Mysterious phone calls. Rossini on the radio. A napping protagonist. If I…
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