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Bringing Home the Broken Things: Nancy Miller Gomez and the Poetry of Inconsolable Objects

Nancy Miller Gomez’s first full-length collection, Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books, 2024), is one gasp after another, filled with the most intimate of small beauties – a mother helping her small son sweep up the spilled ashes of his father, a woman tying the hair she cleans from her brush to trees while imagining the nests […]

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Nancy Miller Gomez’s first full-length collection, Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books, 2024), is one gasp after another, filled with the most intimate of small beauties – a mother helping her small son sweep up the spilled ashes of his father, a woman tying the hair she cleans from her brush to trees while imagining the nests

Sittenfeld Superfan

“This was the one boarding school story I’d never told,” teases Lee Fiora in the opening paragraphs of “Lost but Not Forgotten,” the last of a dozen stories in Curtis Sittenfeld’s new short story collection Show Don’t Tell. It’s a juicy opener, one that prompted me to arrange an interview with Sittenfeld over Zoom, ostensibly

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“This was the one boarding school story I’d never told,” teases Lee Fiora in the opening paragraphs of “Lost but Not Forgotten,” the last of a dozen stories in Curtis Sittenfeld’s new short story collection Show Don’t Tell. It’s a juicy opener, one that prompted me to arrange an interview with Sittenfeld over Zoom, ostensibly

Confidant and Conduit: An Interview with Jared Lemus

Guatemalan Rhapsody by Jared Lemus is one of those rare books that hits the sweet spot of being at once escapist and deeply engaging. Reading it, I felt the exhilaration of being plunged into the world around me even as the ugly drumbeat of 2025 mercifully faded for a bit.  In the conversation that follows, Lemus

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Guatemalan Rhapsody by Jared Lemus is one of those rare books that hits the sweet spot of being at once escapist and deeply engaging. Reading it, I felt the exhilaration of being plunged into the world around me even as the ugly drumbeat of 2025 mercifully faded for a bit.  In the conversation that follows, Lemus

Complicating Truth: An Interview with Emily Greenberg

Emily Greenberg’s writing has appeared in the Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Santa Monica Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, the anthology New Stories from the Midwest, and elsewhere. Her writing honors include the Witness Literary Award in Fiction and two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions. An editor at Split/Lip Press, she holds an MFA from the

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Emily Greenberg’s writing has appeared in the Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Santa Monica Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, the anthology New Stories from the Midwest, and elsewhere. Her writing honors include the Witness Literary Award in Fiction and two Pushcart Prize Special Mentions. An editor at Split/Lip Press, she holds an MFA from the

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