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Category: Literature
Staff Picks: Puddings, Pastels, and Plano
Still from Autumn de Wilde’s Emma. The coronavirus has thrown a wrench into Aries season, but plans for my March birthday remained unchanged. I watched…
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Poets on Couches: Cynthia Cruz
In our new series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These…
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Why Certain Illnesses Remain Mysterious
Michael Peter Ancher, Den syge pige (The Sick Girl), 1882, oil on canvas, 31 1/2″ x 33 1/2″. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. When I…
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Poets on Couches: Mark Wunderlich
In our new series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These…
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Jaquira Díaz, Nonfiction
Jaquira Díaz. Photo: Maria Esquinca. Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls: A Memoir (Algonquin, 2019), a Summer/Fall 2019 Indies Introduce Selection, a Fall…
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Will Arbery, Drama
Will Arbery. Photo: Victor Llorente. Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas and Wyoming. His plays include Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons), Plano…
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Aria Aber, Poetry
Aria Aber. Photo: Nadine Aber. Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage (University of Nebraska, 2019) won the 2018 Prairie Schooner…
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Diannely Antigua. Photo: Savuth Thor. Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection, Ugly Music (YesYes, 2019), was…
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Jia Tolentino, Nonfiction
Jia Tolentino. Photo: Elena Mudd. Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker, formerly the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor…
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