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REVIEW: Foam by Kate Zambreno (opens the original)
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There’s a belief that those who give birth forget the pain in order to be emotionally open to doing it all over again. Scientific studies haven’t found this to be true; in some instances, people who expressed experiencing the most agony were found to remember their pain most consistently over time, perhaps in the interest of preventing it. All this information only leads me to wonder which kind of memory offers better self-care: willful forgetting or vivid recall?I wonder this whenever I pass th
GOSSIP: Week of September 28 + October Zoom (opens the original)
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OCTOBER SUBSCRIBER ZOOM SESSION“Based on a True Story” with Jeni Pirtle, Matthew Bookin and Susana Sevilla AhoSunday, 10/18 at 11AM EDT by ZoomJoin Shabby Doll House authors for a short reading and discussion on their different approaches to writing from real life. From fiction inspired by emotional truths in ’s New Dark, to narrativizing family history in ’s Turn to the Stars, and the blurred boundaries of a ‘nonfiction novel’ in <span class=
REVIEW: Opioids & Organs by Arizona O’Neill (opens the original)
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REVIEW: Baby, This Is a High-Priced Country by Chris Stuck (opens the original)
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DISPATCH: Printers Row: How a Literary Scene Gets Made (Chicago, IL) (opens the original)
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