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Each character’s Roman sea is quite different, but the similarity remains: Each has been tossed up on its shore ..read more
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The triangulation of the novel and “fake news” and Werner Herzog’s whole deal signals discomfiting connections between the United States’ current flirtations with authoritarianism and certain notions of artistic freedom ..read more
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When translator Sarah Booker came to Coffee House with pitches for the translation of both novels of Ojeda’s, the press thought it best to have JAWBONE precede NEFANDO, allowing the former to serve as amuse bouche to the latter’s more toothsome topics. [TW: sexual abuse, child abuse ..read more
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It’s easier to stay in a place that’s known to you even if it’s hurting you. So there’s a question of loyalty, whether to your country or your family, that is complicated by being a colony ..read more
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Often, the kind of research getting funded, printed, and promoted has more to do with the agenda of those writing the checks, the institutions that support them, and the schools who are stacking their faculty rolls, than the provable consequence of the research ..read more
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If It Gets Quiet Later On is its own tabletop display, a grouping of poems, short stories, and essays connected (mostly) by Thran’s life as a writer, reader, and bookseller ..read more
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The ghazal is a cumulative form that builds on established metaphors in a non-linear fashion. . . . I see tremendous liberatory potential in its cumulativeness. . . . When writing a ghazal, my poetic voice is not just my own, just like my pain is not just my own ..read more
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The caretaker tries to keep the objects in his collection from speaking about the lives they have lived . . . reducing them to mere list of objects. The more he fights the resonance of their voices, the more they resist becoming metaphors of the past ..read more
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I try my best not to think too hard about categorizing what is part of my work as an "artist" or "writer" and what's a diversion ..read more
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Fragments scattered throughout the novel tell of women who used embroidery to share messages, whether to reassure loved ones of their well-being (prisoners in World War II camps), call for help after being silenced (Ovid’s Philomela), or protest political injustice (activists denouncing the violence of the Pinochet dictatorship ..read more