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“It is [Rouge Street], along which Shuang himself grew up, that provides temporary respite for criminals, orphans, heretics, and minor deities — all exiles from Chinese modernity.” Henry Zhang interviews Shuang Xuetao, a New Dongbei Literature writer. http://ow.ly/UrvA50Jxi7B

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“Los Angeles will look different but it won’t ever change. Here, there will always be the threat of beauty but also the threat of jagged teeth.” @RosBossGonzalez writes a gorgeous #Apostrophe to Gil Cuadros’s “City of God.” https://t.co/2UFpG0Ytyo

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“I was tired of reading nonimmigrants writing about immigration. I needed to put my voice in the ring.” @jzsalvipoet speaks with @BenPurkert on the politicization of children, Salvadoran slang, and repressed trauma in the latest #BackDraft. https://t.co/BXte2Y4saf

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In our latest Miscellaneous Files, @dracm opens her desk to @mickiemyheart to talk inspiration for her stunning debut novel, These Ghosts Are Family, a multi-generational epic of a Jamaican family and its less than admirable patriarch https://t.co/elRObGXwNK

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“America made Marlin feel unwelcome, and so he left me.” From the archives, an excerpt from YZ Chin’s “Edge Case.” Come say hello to the author at Booth 460! https://t.co/FRRz4MxKgz

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"The spontaneous protest movements are not subsiding. They are made up of shock troops of young, tirelessly mobilized activists, who are occupying the ministries..." An excerpt of Charif Majdalani's BEIRUT 2020, translated by @ruthldiver. https://www.guernicamag.com/beirut-2020-diary-of-the-collapse/

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We're thrilled to see @Nazish_Brohi's complicating work on Muslim women, agency, and violence, which originally ran as part of our Female Fighters series, featured in this week's Memoir Monday newsletter 👇 https://t.co/42ikspeRmh

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Books & Bottles, our reading series meets literary happy hour, returns this Wed! @TanaWojczuk will discuss & read from her new biography of Charlotte Cushman, LADY ROMEO, with host @mickiemyheart. RSVP here: https://t.co/1RUhqxq4MH

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"For some reason, there’s this huge difference in my mind between how you tell a story and how you write a story." In our latest Back Draft, @mmpopkey talks structuring and revising her debut novel TOPICS OF CONVERSATION, with @ByKateDwyer. https://t.co/DlKftUoeQR

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Sending happy pub day congratulations to our contributor @robvato whose memoir UNFORGETTING is the first nonfiction book published by a "Big Five" publisher, written by and about U.S. Central Americans. https://t.co/MLuzhEAwnq