In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Francisco Cantú is a writer and translator fascinated by borderlands, a former Fulbright Fellow, recipient Continue reading →
Carmen Maria Machado & Kelly Link
Carmen Maria Machado: I was just rereading White Cat, Black Dog last night and this morning and was thinking a lot about the nested narration, the story within the story within Continue reading →
“THREE . . . TWO . . . ONE!” Tara yelled, and on “Go!” I flung my sixty-year-old body into the air—bare arms raised, palms to the sky, bare legs kicked Continue reading →
THERE ONCE WAS A WOMAN from the mountain village of Breznitsa who was kidnapped by an Arabian prince. In the desert, she lay down her black feredjé cape, stepped on it, Continue reading →
Kate Bernheimer
“I HAVE MADE A rough sketch of my underground palace,” Anne Frank wrote in her diary on June 14, 1942. “I hope that this wish of mine will be fulfilled one Continue reading →