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Mac Crane
An Ode to Chelsea Gray: Mac Crane In Praise of the Poetics of Basketball
“When I watch her, I feel like I’m witnessing something beyond me, something heavenly and incomprehensible.”
By
Mac Crane
| May 13, 2025
Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect
Mac Crane Examines What It Means to Perform Identity on the Court
By
Mac Crane
| June 10, 2024
The Shared Language of the Game: Marisa Crane on Trying Out for Pro Basketball
When I’m Not Writing
, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies
By
Mac Crane
| January 30, 2023
Marisa Crane on the Finer Points of Experimental Fiction
“The experimental form should relate to and enhance the themes and narrative—not distract from it.”
By
Mac Crane
| January 19, 2023
Reaching for the Joy of Our Unborn Child
Marisa Crane on Cycles of Loss and Expectation
By
Mac Crane
| July 14, 2020
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