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All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

"Men of Exclusion held truth close, sailing like the wind into a port of safety."

By Fae Myenne Ng | September 21, 2023

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

"Faith gave the women around me strengths and simultaneous burdens."

By Halle Hill | September 21, 2023

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

"They show a broader human urge to understand the bodies we live in, especially when they falter."

By Kate Roberts | September 19, 2023

"Your Meals In Life Are Numbered:" On Trying (and Failing) in Hollywood

Terrell Tannen Remembers His Friend, Novelist Jim Harrison

By Terrell Tannen | September 15, 2023

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

"It’s both mystical and humiliating how your novel can know things before you yourself know them."

By James Frankie Thomas | September 13, 2023

Navied Mahdavian on Confronting Environmental Degredation in the American West

Navied Mahdavian on Confronting Environmental Degredation in the American West

From His Graphic Memoir, This Country

By Navied Mahdavian | September 11, 2023

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Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet

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"The job makes the real work possible. The place you live is only as good as the life it allows."

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