When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
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When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.
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It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.
The musician, writer, and actor on revision, truth, and liking books more than people.
The author of Craft in the Real World on revision, breaking habits, and fixing the writing workshop.
After my wedding, I began looking for a language for the partnership, both metaphorical and actual, I seemed to have contracted.
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