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    How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 12 min

    How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

    I first encountered Alexander Chee’s writing in 2018 when I took an afternoon master class with Catapult’s writing program in Manhattan. ...
    An Incomplete Reading List for an American Citizen
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Nov 4, 2020
    • 8 min

    An Incomplete Reading List for an American Citizen

    While I and many people I know, in recent literature and in real life, still refer to the presidential election of 2016 as The Election™,...
    Branwell by Douglas A. Martin
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Oct 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    Branwell by Douglas A. Martin

    I know jackshit about the Brontë family. I was an angsty teen who hated being told what to do, and reading old classics in Humanities and...
    Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza
    Marian Perales
    • Oct 26, 2020
    • 5 min

    Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza

    Written by MacArthur Foundation fellow Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country is an astute compendium of essa...
    Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
    Courtney Dyer
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

    A modern gothic novel for the current generation of readers who are always looking for another queer icon. Full of spooky sapphic romance...
    Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter
    Cecilia Beard
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter

    Evangelical Christianity as Fantasy (?) in Emily Carpenter’s Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters The not-quite sequel to Emily Carpenter’s posi...
    Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa
    Maggie Briana Chidester
    • Oct 19, 2020
    • 6 min

    Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

    Following Emmy award-winning journalist and long-time anchor or NPR’s Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa from her childhood to present day
    How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore
    Mel Ann Rosenthal
    • Oct 13, 2020
    • 23 min

    How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore

    “What is a good family? Is it money? Because we had a lot of that for a little while, but my home life was anything but good. Is it havin...
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