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How We Write the Dead: A Conversation with Vikram Paralkar
Vikram Paralkar’s debut novel Night Theater came out from Catapult last month, and is already out in the UK from Serpent’s Tail and in India from HarperCollins India (under the title The Wounds of the...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #102: Song Turned Blue
Sometimes the historical context of a written piece can change so entirely in the process of composition that the words mean something other than you imagined just in the time it takes to finish. So it...
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Loop
“It was so clear to me/ that it was almost invisible.” –Neko Case Draft One I need you to say yes to me once more. I need to spend the afternoon on your couch, my body draped over your body, binge...
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Not a Widow
My need for the “widow card” joke began at the gynecologist’s office, a month after my husband John’s death. I was mindlessly filling out paperwork amongst a waiting room filled with mostly couples....
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The Truth About Lying
A skinny tweaker girl with Manic Panic green spiked hair reclines in a bathtub wearing nothing but black-and-red-striped knee socks. She holds a glass pipe and scrapes the burnt crust from its edges...
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