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… described as a collection of short stories “that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one … transformation.” Angus talks about trans narratives, both the ones most commonly seen in the culture at large, and his notion of transness, not as a … described as a collection of short stories “that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one …

… - 6:54pm Nonfiction / Poetry Poet Roger Reeves calls the essays in his debut book of prose “fugitive essays.” And … “a desire for and a spirit of escape and transgression of the proper and the proposed. . . . a desire for the outside, for a playing … Poet Roger Reeves calls the essays in his debut book of prose “fugitive essays.” And …

… 09/03/2023 - 11:02pm Nonfiction / Poetry Poet and host of the The Slowdown podcast Major Jackson joins us to talk about … of new and selected poems that captures two decades in the life of a poet. Last year Major also released a book his … Poet and host of the The Slowdown podcast Major Jackson joins us to talk about …

… history and mythology, and perhaps most of all tells the story of a poet’s self-discovery, finding her voice … reclamation, a struggle for a whole vision and version for the writer of her own self and purpose. The genius of this pursuit is staggering. . . .The intricate …

… Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts Submitted by Anonymous (not … / Nonfiction / Poetry As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, … behalf of those wronged by it? Poet Dionne Brand says “the salvage is the life which exceeds the wreck” and Diana …

… latest collection, Trace Evidence , we encounter the lines: “I want to ​tell you what for me it has been like. … when language itself does not capture one’s identity, when the available categories do not describe your life, when … self-conception and a son’s very different one, and the ways different legacies of race—historically, …

… only be talking to each other but Sawako’s work also blurs the boundaries between them, nesting each within the next in a way that illuminates something about all three. … performance, one that involves “microtranslations” of the syntax of the works of others. As Fred Moten says about …

… Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Touching the Art Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, … Nonfiction Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore returns to Between the Covers to talk about her remarkable new book, Touching … are arranged like a mosaic, this colorful arrangement of stones, textures, and metals. I knew there was a zero percent …

… joins us to talk about her latest novel, Bina,  winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Bina was also shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmith … couldn't even get in because Lidia, she's like the rolling stones in Portland. So we sat on this panel, then I remember …

… We welcome back Valeria Luiselli—who first appeared on the show eleven years ago—to discuss her new and truly marvelous novel Beginning Middle End . Much like the shapeshifting god Proteus, who figures prominently in … borders and migration, and perhaps even a field guide for the apocalypse, enacting a way to live and love in a time of …