Is literature political? How about can literature use activists? If they are people too, I guess it can.
Before bedtime, in their two-room apartment on the outskirts of postwar Tokyo, my great-grandfather would tell my obāchan and her siblings ghost stories, like those retold in Aoko Matsuda’s short story collection, Where the Wild Ladies Are.
Meridel LeSueur | North Star Country, Duell, Sloan, 1945 | reprint: The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series, University of Minnesota...
Éireann Lorsung | The Century | Milkweed Editions | 2020 | 144 Pages “Inclusivity in American systems comes with the...
John Bartlow Martin | Indiana: An Interpretation | Knopf | 1947 | 336 Pages | Bi-Centennial edition published by Indiana...
I spent the early years of my life in a rural part of northern Ohio with my underemployed mom, a severely disabled father, and a closeted gay racecar driver friend of my mom’s.
David Foster Wallace | The Pale King | Back Bay Books | April 10, 2012 | 592 Pages With its...
Or, not really a famous writer, not, I mean, someone whose stories were made into movies or so-called prestige television, not someone who appeared on talk shows or whose tweets went viral as a matter of course, but still a writer famous enough to be asked to give talks at writers' conferences like the one I was attending when I heard this talk.
Michael Gaylord James | Pictures from the Long Haul: Selected Photographs and Volume Two, Pictures from the Long Haul, Selected...
To even be suspected of treasure—to be indistinguishable from those who possess treasure—is to become a target. This is the lesson of the oyster.
Pancake’s stories are a testament to the notion that the real Appalachia is a fiction born from a need to make sense of a region that, having been depopulated of indigenous people, was then repopulated by settlers who were in turn used as pawns in a mighty extractive industry that left the region scarred, barren, a perpetual social problem to be raised when politically convenient but never solved.
The next time they tell you that you are naïve, that it is not as easy as you make it sound, know that it has nothing to do with you.