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In BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU, Sally Rooney ultimately gives her answer to the question the novel’s title implies. The light is fading, she knows, and yet still we go on, thinking and talking and loving each other, illuminating small rooms. https://t.co/gmn2DE1Afs

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Hanif Abdurraqib latest work, A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA, explores the history of Black art and performance, woven through with threads of personal narrative. https://t.co/SFjVzcRWYF @julia_megumi @NifMuhammad

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Claire Vaye Watkins’s newest novel, I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS, asks readers to sit with discomfort until something gives. https://t.co/dOuJmtlGya

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"THE PUSH and Toni Morrison’s BELOVED were both written in the maternal gothic tradition, and both novels use the form to explore how mothers are devalued and isolated by white, patriarchal power structures." https://t.co/zppVxDC7YX

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Putsata Reang’s new memoir, MA AND ME, delves into the realization that many of her greatest struggles are rooted in the past, under the weight of inherited trauma and filial duty. Reang unshackles herself from family history and forges an identity. https://pshr.us/37VkHKC https://t.co/VLorG0RSJp

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Congratulations to @pronounced_ing ! OUR MISSING HEARTS was selected for TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022! Ng was the guest editor for our Summer 2020 Issue: https://t.co/R7KP3p4ihm

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Fanfiction pummels its readers with emotion—joy, love, sex, and sorrow—until they are left feeling exposed, a raw nerve that jumps at the slightest graze. Hanya Yanagihara’s A LITTLE LIFE brings that same rawness into the literary world. https://t.co/XymrILokqh

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Joy Harjo’s signature project as the twenty-third U.S. Poet Laureate is one of mapmaking: gathering poems by forty-seven Native Nations poets in a cartography of voice. https://t.co/ZRAQdOouwq https://t.co/GlDNFoI9AD

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Our 2014 Emerging Writer’s Contest nonfiction winner, Eliese Colette Goldbach, recently published her memoir RUST with Flatiron Books. Read her winning piece, “In the Memory of the Living,” and consider applying to the contest yourself! https://t.co/YIzmfXdH9l https://t.co/IKa7iHIg0H

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Realism and the Weird in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Shirley Jackson's “The Story We Used to Tell” https://t.co/4VnDy8jf4p @claudiaamcc https://t.co/HmhkSOMFSm