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Looking Back on Our Cringe-Worthy Selves: A Reading List for Teenage Weirdos

Looking Back on Our Cringe-Worthy Selves: A Reading List for Teenage Weirdos

Cloud Delfina Cardona Recommends Michele Serros, jo reyes-boitel, Jacinto Jesús Cardona and More

By Cloud Delfina Cardona | October 17, 2025

Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

Five Experimental Anti-Novels That Break the Form (Beautifully)

Dan Leach Recommends Michael Bible, Maggie Nelson, Haruki Murakami, and More

By Dan Leach | July 3, 2025

Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

Martha Park Recommends Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and More

By Martha Park | May 23, 2025

How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

Andy Anderegg on Writing a Book About Escaping When You’re Going in Circles

By Andy Anderegg | April 11, 2025

Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

Emilie Menzel on Depicting Animals in Poetry, Learning from Music, and Constructing a New Self

Diana Khoi Nguyen in Conversation with the Author of “The Girl Who Became a Rabbit”

By Diana Khoi Nguyen | September 19, 2024

“The Girl Who Became a Rabbit,” a Poem by Emilie Menzel

“The Girl Who Became a Rabbit,” a Poem by Emilie Menzel

From the Book-length Poem "The Girl Who Became a Rabbit"

By Emilie Menzel | September 19, 2024

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“Where does the line lie between mindfully preparing for death, and stepping off the sidewalk to meet it?”

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How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

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Readings for April"> Billion-Year Histories and Birding While Black: Your Climate <br

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Amy Brady Recommends J. Drew Lanham, Kate Aronoff, and More

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Rural Stories That Get it Right: A Reading List

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By Ashleigh Bryant Phillips | July 6, 2020

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By Carter Sickels | May 21, 2020

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