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July 20, 2020 14 min read

The following is excerpted from The Pull of the Stars (Little Brown and Company), the new novel by Emma Donoghue. Mirroring our current pandemic moment, The Pull of...

Pizza Pies & Longing Drive the Narrative in Jean Kyoung Frazier’s Pizza Girl

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Features

June 24, 2020 6 min read

The following is excerpted from Pizza Girl (Doubleday), the new novel by Jean Kyoung Frazier. Pizza Girl follows a pregnant pizza...

Sex, Gossip, and Spirituality: Christopher Isherwood Through the Ages

Christopher Bram

Features

June 11, 2020 10 min read

The following essay, “A Fan’s Notes” is from Isherwood in Transit edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman. I belong...

Grappling with the Complexities of Murder, Crime, and Community

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Opinion

April 28, 2020 7 min read

The following is excerpted from The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, the nonfiction debut...

R. Eric Thomas Finds Love in the Supermarket Aisle

Lilia Shrayfer

Excerpts

February 16, 2020 5 min read

"We’d had a really stunning meet-cute. He worked in a supermarket and I was in a season where I was eating all of my feelings, so I saw him multiple times a week." Read More