Date: August 27, 2022
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your published book (s).I am a writer, cartoonist, and curator. I started the Green Lantern Press, a non-profit art space and publisher […]
Date: August 22, 2022
Heaven Knows Some days, you wake up and the light in the field is like swimming or moving through clear fog, is something that pushes back—not startling but steady pressure,
Date: August 22, 2022
“When looking for your next great read, it’s easy to gravitate towards romance novels with happy endings or fantasy books with satisfying conclusions. But just as horror fans love a creepy-crawly feeling and sci-fi readers crave the chaos […]
Date: August 22, 2022
Hopefully you’ve been following our recent comics journalism pieces on art and artists created by Reader contributor and former Chicagoan Coco Picard (her latest, an interview with artist and professor Nick Cave, was in our […]
Date: August 19, 2022
Writers are often inspired by some ghost—a lingering feeling or charge, whether attributed to one’s own inner psychological state or an honest-to-god spirit. I think of William Butler Yeats, for […]
Date: August 18, 2022
Both of my parents died when I was in my early twenties. I was still immersed in their friend group at the time, as well as close with my extended […]
Date: August 18, 2022
“In Learning to Live (Aprendendo a Viver), Clarice Lispector calls for ‘patience to observe the flowers, imperceptibly and slowly opening.” As plant philosopher Michael Marder points out in his essay, “Lispector and […]
Date: August 16, 2022
“My novel, The Healing Circle, follows Ursula, whose terminal disease makes her leave family and friends in California—friends who share her penchant for New Age remedies—for a miracle cure in Germany. […]
Date: August 12, 2022
The most formidable deadline I ever faced was in seventh grade. The end of the semester was approaching, and I suddenly realized I had five book reports due the next […]
Date: August 3, 2022
In The Healing Circle, a bad new age mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she […]
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In his introduction to New Moons, a collection of poetry, fiction, and lyrical memoirs by Muslims in North America, Kazim Ali confesses the difficulty of embarking on an anthology that seeks […]
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Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom finds the former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood celebrating a colorful mosaic of mothering moments that range from the spiritual to […]
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