On Joy and Desire: An Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
hen Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads lwaloud from her new novel—the exquisitely titled Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun—she becomes the characters…
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Bookmarked: Rufi Thorpe’s Five Debut Novelists
As a debut novelist, I tend to read other debut novelists. I didn’t always. I used to read mostly books that were recommended to…
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Women We Read This Week
Quinn Norton’s “The Land That Never Has Been Yet” on Medium In her most recent piece for Medium, writer Quinn Norton begins with: It’s…
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Of Bikes and Men
I’ve just completed my first year as a full-time lecturer teaching writing at a state university, and this is, undoubtedly, the most anticipated summer…
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Writing about Women at the Margins: An Interview with NoViolet Bulawayo
The Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, a group of her friends and I are at Buka, a Nigerian restaurant in Brooklyn, and we are surrounded by fish heads…
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Women We Read This Week
Ali Smith’s “The Human Claim” at Liberty I love the way Ali Smith writes, so I was happy to find this piece amidst 80…
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On the Far End of Reality: Jennifer Percy’s Demon Camp
Everywhere he went, he saw them, their burned bodies, watching him. These were the days after the war. Demon Camp is not really about…
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The Grief Book Club
My aunt died recently. Although she was sick and we all knew about it, it was somehow still sudden and shocking. She was diagnosed with HIV…
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An Unwanted Guest
I didn’t see the jellyfish, but I felt it—a searing pain at my ankle that shot up through my leg, bringing me, in a matter of seconds, to my knees in the sand.
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Women We Read This Week
“The Rumpus Interview With Rachel Kushner” on The Rumpus After reading The Flamethrowers, I developed a massive lady writer crush on Rachel Kushner, and…
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Summer Reads from Vela
Books by women for the last glorious gasp of summer! Rachel Kushner’sThe Flamethrowers Sure, I was predisposed to like Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers. The…
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Women We Read This Week
Joanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
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