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Category: Magazine

October 28, 2022October 27, 2022 Karen Li Commentaries, Magazine

What’s In a Story: Writing Fiction That Matters

The endless room for creativity in fiction makes it difficult to bind it to a definitive set of rules.

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction, Magazine

Life on the Water

The morning wind swirled down cool and soft from the mountains, shaking the tops of the short pines on the foothills, stirring the dust at Ignacio’s feet and raising his hopes. He leaned back against the car, black and sleek, borrowed from his brother, and fingered the coins in his pocket.

October 12, 2022October 10, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction, Magazine

Homestead

Harvest day is the most important day of the week.

September 12, 2022September 11, 2022 Corina Chen Book Reviews, Magazine

Lost in Translation: A Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr weaves together a story across time and space, all the while asking the question, "What happens when stories get lost in translation?"

March 30, 2022March 27, 2022 Corina Chen Magazine, Personal Essays

My Animals: How Susan Orlean’s On Animals Taught Me the Value of Human-Animal Crossings

By reading On Animals, I remembered my animals.

March 7, 2022March 2, 2022 Kristy Choung Magazine

Uncoupled Love: A Review of “Marriage Quarantine” by Kate Walbert

Kate Walbert redefines marriage by exploring its disjointed sides during a pandemic.

March 4, 2022March 1, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Interviews, Magazine

A Box of Ingredients: Interview with Beth Piatote, Sudden Fiction Guest Judge and Author of The Beadworkers: Stories

I think about other Native people who may read that piece and can, through the piece, feel a connection to those lands...feel that they are there.

January 3, 2022January 2, 2022 Trisha Iley Book Reviews, Magazine

Coarsely, Shockingly Real: A Review of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Unlikeable main characters abound in modern fiction, and this novel does not break that mold.

November 24, 2021November 23, 2021 Julia Cheunkarndee Interviews, Magazine

An Element of Sacrifice: Interview with Emily Dezurick-Badran, author of Issue 41 story “Remainder”

Sacrifice can be this totally joyful choice that people make, which is something that I've come to terms with more, recently.

October 4, 2021October 13, 2021 Julia Cheunkarndee Interviews, Magazine

Working with Waves and Watercolors: Interview with Mikaela Kristianous, Artist of Issue 41 Piece Regarding the Sea

I definitely take inspiration from the skies, like I mentioned, flowers, even food: strawberries, raspberries, those kinds of things.

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