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Doubles
In the late 1960s, a grieving twelve-year-old navigates the limitations of her group home in "Doubles", Nora Gold’s poignant novella about a derailed girlhood. Before her mother died, the narrator’s life on her family farm was...
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In the late 1960s, a grieving twelve-year-old navigates the limitations of her group home in "Doubles", Nora Gold’s poignant novella about a derailed girlhood. Before her mother died, the narrator’s life on her family farm was...
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by Aimee Jodoin
"Born to Live on the Edge" is a military memoir by a man who ran headlong into danger throughout his life and career. Adrenaline junkie Frederick I. Pumroy’s memoir "Born to Live on the Edge" is filled with adventures flying planes....
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by Ian Dailey
In R. A. Busby’s novella "You Will Speak for the Dead", a house cleaner faces an unexpected personal crisis while wrestling with his most bizarre job yet. Putrid kitchens, bug infestations, and massive piles of junk are all in a...
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Sound. Alise Alousi sounds her words to arrive as cadence, as music, as magic. Sounds easy, until you realize how large her collection of eye teeth would be if she traded her secret with other poets. A Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and the...
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In Andrew Colarusso and Karen An-hwei Lee’s collaborative story collection "Souvenirs", art begets art. These imaginative stories are inspired by sources including Emily Dickinson’s black cake recipe, a David Bowie song, The Pillow...
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As disturbing as it is beautiful, "Lockdown" is a photographic trek through a city in the midst of a global crisis. The photographs collected in Conor Mitchell’s "Lockdown" chronicle one hundred days of uncertainty and unrest in San...
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Following a family that confronts climate change, the novella "Singularity" reads like a love letter to science. A family’s perseverance leads to breakthrough scientific discoveries in Jayme A. Oliveira Filho and Jayme S. Alencar’s...
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"Thomas Merton Meets the Unspeakable" is a concise presentation of the facts and events surrounding Merton’s death. The 1960s were grim, marked by the assassinations of prominent activists, peacemakers, and politicians. In "Thomas...
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