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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Kabelo Motsoeneng introduces “The Library,” an excerpt from Mohammad Rabie’s novel Kawkab ’Anbar, translated by Elliott Colla for our Spring 2022 issue, “Decades of Fire.” You can purchase the issue here. Sometimes literature translated into English can lack a kind of beauty and essential voice that might have existed […]

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Kabelo Motsoeneng introduces “The Library,” an excerpt from Mohammad Rabie’s novel Kawkab ’Anbar, translated by Elliott Colla for our Spring 2022 issue, “Decades of Fire.” You can purchase the issue here. Sometimes literature translated into English can lack a kind of beauty and essential voice that might have existed

“Library Island,” by Sergio Troncoso

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What little I understood was that the overseers of Library Island—our captors uttered so few words to us—were trying to tear you away from the Outer World. Every bit of you, the seen and the unseen you.

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What little I understood was that the overseers of Library Island—our captors uttered so few words to us—were trying to tear you away from the Outer World. Every bit of you, the seen and the unseen you.

From the Desk of a Librarian: Archives as a Resource

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We all know libraries are great resources for writing. What isn’t always considered, however, is the intense power of archives for creative writers. What separates archives from the rest of the materials kept in libraries is that the vast majority of archival materials are unpublished. We can only truly know them, the stories they contain, the bits of brilliant light, by spending some time with them. Though we know archives as essential to the fact-finding part of research, not everyone sees them as essential to the creative part. But there are stories in archives, stories waiting to be told, and wading through the records for these gems is the tragically beautiful part of archival research.

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We all know libraries are great resources for writing. What isn’t always considered, however, is the intense power of archives for creative writers. What separates archives from the rest of the materials kept in libraries is that the vast majority of archival materials are unpublished. We can only truly know them, the stories they contain, the bits of brilliant light, by spending some time with them. Though we know archives as essential to the fact-finding part of research, not everyone sees them as essential to the creative part. But there are stories in archives, stories waiting to be told, and wading through the records for these gems is the tragically beautiful part of archival research.

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