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In Aruni Kashyap’s collection of thirteen short stories, The Way You Want to Be Loved, characters tied to Assam confront familial guilt, racism, homophobia, and the isolation endured by young people living far from home. As the stories cross oceans and time periods, Kashyap keeps readers engaged with his impeccably developed characters as they forge…
We (Susan and Corey) have been discussing writing for years. Every Monday, Corey sends out a ‘Monday Poem’ written by a seriously fabulous poet. Susan always responds…
Change is often imagined as a moment of high drama—a birth or death, a calamity or a great good fortune, a stroke of luck, good or bad. But change rarely happens all at once. More often, change occurs as a series of events, of decisions and revisions, of slow bloomings or strangulations, until you wonder…
The stories in Good Night, Sleep Tight are unsettling, weird, and sometimes downright terrifying. Each story engages tropes of sci-fi and horror, weaving humanoid robots, themes of mothering and familial relationships, and characters trapped in their own minds and bodies in ways that push past the boundaries of reality. Altogether the stories create a pervasive…
I wasn’t planning to write another penguin novel. In the spring before My Last Continent was published, I’d traveled to the Galápagos Islands to see penguins and other wildlife—it wasn’t meant to be a research trip. Yet it turned into one after I learned about the bizarre human history of Floreana Island.