Yipyap Between Mary Kay Zuravleff and John Mauk
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Mary Kay Zuravleff July 2, 2024 Two or three times in my life, I’ve had instant affinity with a writer,…
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Committed to the Artist’s Life: An Interview with Suzanne Scanlon
June 4, 2024
By Eileen Favorite I met Suzanne Scanlon during a Ragdale residency many years ago. It was springtime, the prairie muddy,…
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The Untold Story of Magic During the Witch Trials: An Interview With Tabitha Stanmore on Cunning Folk
May 31, 2024
by Lorraine Boissoneault Have you lost anything recently? Maybe something important but small, like your house keys or your phone…
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A Wholeness Just Out of Reach: An Interview With Bee Sacks
May 17, 2024
by Sarah Terez Rosenblum A writer builds the house and leaves the rooms sparsely furnished; the reader hauls in their…
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Stories That Survive: An Interview With Patricia Ann McNair
May 6, 2024
by Christine Maul Rice I first heard Patricia Ann McNair read at Martyrs on Lincoln. Or was it the Hopleaf?…
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Studio of the Voice: Interview with Marcia Aldrich
April 1, 2024
By Emily Hipchen Marcia Aldrich and I met when she was the editor of Fourth Genre and published an essay…
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Longing for Wildness: An Interview With Gina Chung
March 19, 2024
By Jael Montellano There is a new dominant presence in my household waking my awareness to wildness. She has four…
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The Missing: An Interview with Ben Tanzer
March 15, 2024
By Alice Kaltman Over the course of the last few months, I’ve had the great privilege (and tons of fun)…
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Chasing Ghosts: A Conversation with Kevin Clouther
February 27, 2024
By Patricia Ann McNair In his latest collection, Maximum Speed, Kevin Clouther writes about a group of people whose lives…
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Ternary Rhythms: An Interview With Diego Báez
February 21, 2024
By Jael Montellano Recently I spent time under my home country’s radiating sun. Lodged in the oven-warmth of car traffic,…
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Feminism, Jewish Identity, and the Body: An Interview with S.L. Wisenberg
January 26, 2024
By Eileen Favorite Sandi Wisenberg (who publishes as S.L. Wisenberg) is a Chicago literary icon; she was named a New…
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We Might Save the World: An Interview With Bonnie Jo Campbell
January 10, 2024
By Jael Montellano Somehow, though the details are noise in my head, I tripped into lunch with Bonnie Jo Campbell…
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The Other Solomon by Morgan Christie
December 28, 2023
Shards of morning clamor echoed off the city. They reflected into George’s apartment like light or some other almost visible…
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The Way Home by Gabrielle Esposito
December 28, 2023
Kurt is driving loose, drifting into the other lane as he maneuvers around bends. He’s in no hurry to get…
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Cottonmouth by Jerakah Greene
December 28, 2023
The Illinois River winding like a snake. Snakes inside the river, riding the current. The current dancing with my hands.…
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The Mane Event by Cheryl Dyer
December 28, 2023
At sunrise she knew it was over. Today would be new. Tracey had been awake nearly an hour when the…
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The Imperious Sign by J.Z. Wyckoff
December 28, 2023
His upbringing had been one of the worst Rachel had heard of—one of those chain-up situations, deep in Gulf County,…
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Psychic Handbook by Laura Schadler
December 28, 2023
All of us and none of us were psychic. Natasha in her billowy black dress. Only the prettiest girls could…
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On Buffleheads by Christina Ray Henry
December 28, 2023
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Doing the Work by Randall Albers
December 28, 2023
Novel excerpt from All the World Before Them 1970 And so it was that on the morning after commencement—a grand…
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Old Dirty Things by Jordan Hagedon
December 28, 2023
Shell had bought the house because she felt closer to benevolence there. It was a blue shingled house surrounded by…
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Grows a Tail by Lucy Campbell
December 28, 2023
I am in a hospital waiting room. Large windows overlook an urban landscape stretching into the distance, but first the…
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The Cenote by Dawn Goulet
December 28, 2023
Waking before dawn, the woman shushes the children into their clothes. Shoes for walking. Hats. Sunscreen. Knowing the breakfast buffet…
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Bridge Club by Mary Hannah Terzino
December 28, 2023
Even at six years old, I knew who the alcoholics were. They appeared at my mother’s monthly bridge club late,…
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The Thief of Words by Anthony Bukoski
December 28, 2023
When he worked days, my father came home around the same time as Basia, Father carrying his lunch pail, my…
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What Only Makes You Stronger by APGaines
December 28, 2023
Behind these walls, beneath layers of blankets, the house is mostly asleep, and I hold in my hand a slippery…
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Coyote by Dayna Copeland
December 28, 2023
Neon green buzz from beyond, 9:51p.m. Mountain time, 11:51p.m. on the East Coast. It was Dad. “Good Midwest rock from…
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Wind Telephone Booth by Judy Bolton-Fasman
December 28, 2023
In 2010, a Japanese garden designer named Itaru Sasaki—who lives outside the coastal city of Ōtsuchi—built a telephone booth on…
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Remind Me to Never Use the Puerto Rican Jukebox as a Portal Again by Flávia Monteiro
December 28, 2023
No matter how much we Lonely-Planet ourselves up, the story of traveling is the story of being caught off guard…
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Mother Daughter Mother Daughter by Donna Miscolta
December 28, 2023
My daughter walks around her apartment shirtless. Her breasts are impressive given the tradition of small-breasted women in our family.…
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