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Review of "Happy Hour": Neo-Flappers roaming the modern day New York

Book Review

“Marlowe Granados uses the city of New York as a sewing needle; through the eye of the neo-flapper of the 21st century, she pulls a thread of interesting and wide selection of characters and quietly sews them in and out of the story, embroidering a mirrored painting of the hollow and deceitful society of New York.” On the blog, Zeynep Bashak reviews Marlowe Granados’ Happy Hour (Verso Books, 2021).

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Review of Eley Williams' “Attrib. And Other Stories”: On Language, Our Difficult Lifeline

Book Review

“‘The plot of this is not and will not be obvious.’ So begins Eley Williams’ debut short story collection Attrib. and Other Stories, out today (Anchor Books, May 18, 2021), a declaration that grows increasingly self-referential as the collection unfurls, each of its sixteen stories a successive petal in the work’s burgeoning eccentricity, sensitivity, and wit.” On the blog, Sarah M. Zhou reviews Eley Williams’ Attrib. and Other Stories (Anchor Books, 2021).

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Review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed”: The Multiplicity of the Colonial Self

Book Review

“The unnamed ‘man of two minds’ from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer returns in The Committed (Grove Atlantic, 2021), now entangled in the criminal side streets of France. No longer a spy or a sleeper, but most certainly a spook, our two-minded narrator is tormented by contradiction, infinitely dialectical in his ability to sympathize with conflicting perspectives.” On the blog, Jonathan Paul reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed (Grove Atlantic, 2021).

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APA Writer Series: Q&A with Iris A. Law

APA Writer Series | Iris A. Law

“I think there’s just a need out there for poetry to be introduced earlier in classrooms, and for it to be something that’s just part of the way we live and breathe…And the earlier and more broadly we expose people to multiple voices and different kinds of poetry, I do think it’s possible to change the system.”

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