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Smart Snow: The Intermedia Collaborations of Kathleen Kelly and Sarah Rose...
Still Image from "Territory""We started from really basic questions about form: 'Can you dance with a poem?'; 'What would it look like to choreograph a poem, using the words as bodies?'"Sarah Rose...
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“Iraq is variegated, contradictory, endlessly confusing. Over the years its people have watched as others have sought to define them, creating images to be displayed beyond its borders” (10)....
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Below is the next interview in a series on trans writers, genre, and the essay, this time with Cameron Awkward-Rich. The author of Sympathetic Little Monster and Transit, he is currently completing a...
View ArticleEric LeMay: On the Essay in Our Time
The quality of being constantly contemporary—or of stubbornly surviving the vicissitudes of history, taste and the whimsicalities of fashion—is the single quality most commonly found among major works...
View ArticleMelissa Matthewson on Desire, Design, and the Lyric Moment
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View ArticleInt'l Essayists: Chris Arthur, An Irish Essay(ist)?
Recently, as I write my essays, I’ve been thinking a lot about allegiance and influence, about belonging and not belonging, about feeling at home and feeling alienated, about nationality and a sense of...
View ArticleRobbie Maakestad: On Pneumothorax and Writing Medical Trauma
This past spring semester I taught an introductory literature course at George Mason University. For our final text of the semester my students read Mike Scalise’s The Brand New Catastrophe: A Memoir—a...
View ArticleInt'l Essayists: V.V. Ganeshananthan on Sunila Galappatti
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View ArticleDrew Knapp: On Difficult Tasks
I'm skim-fed to the city through the baleen corridor of the Lincoln tunnel. I'm aware of the oft-inhabited expectation of this place (a movie set of indeterminate expanse, where glimpsed strangers, in...
View ArticleGeoffrey Babbitt: On Categories & Seneca Review’s Book Prize
Seneca Review is inaugurating a book prize this summer (accepting submissions until August 15th), and since we’ve been fielding inquiries from potential submitters, we thought we’d offer a few...
View ArticleFalse Expectations
“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.” —Charles DickensOne summer evening in Brownsville, when I was twelve years old, my father took us to see our house. For years, we were told about...
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The ‘Personal-Essay Boom’ is Over the Page: The Audio-Biography of Magnetic Fields’ 50 Song MemoirRemember back in May when Jia Tolentino trolled the hell out of us stewards of the personal essay? In...
View ArticleAlternative Routes: An Interview with Jericho Parms
Lost Wax by Jericho Parms (University of Georgia Press, 2016) is an amalgamation of forms and styles: lyrical, narrative, essay, and travelogue. It’s a fun read for viewing new frames encasing...
View ArticleNick Neely: Some Phases of Annie Dillard’s “Total Eclipse”
1. To preface: I am not a trained physicist or astronomer. I am an amateur who began this fleeting study with too limited a telescope and maybe the wrong lens. I think I may have burned my eyes by...
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Visual Essays: Field Notes from Iceland
This summer, Sarah Minor attended NonfictioNow '17 in Reykjavik and conducted research on local textile traditions and the relationship between Icelandic literature and landscape. This embroidered text...
View ArticleCraig Reinbold poses nude with Erik Anderson
It’s a rare and great thing to get so riled by a book.I dug into Erik Anderson’s Flutter Point as soon as it was pub’d by Zone 3 Pressafter winning their annual creative nonfiction book award. We seem...
View ArticleClutch Fleischmann and Torrey Peters talk about Joss Barton
Below is the next installment in a series on trans writers, genre, and the essay, where I talk with Torrey Peters about the writer Joss Barton and Barton's piece “Lord, Be a Femme.” Check out some...
View ArticleDurga Chew-Bose, vacuums & swans-in-a-pond
There are so, so many great lines in Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much and Not the Mood, but this one conjoinment of words in particular, for whatever reason, really rocked it for me. From the book’s opening...
View ArticleIt Starts with Curiosity: a Conversation with David LeGault and Edward McPherson
Early summer saw the publication of two new essay collections—One Million Maniacs, by David LeGault, and The History of the Future, by Edward McPherson. Each essay collection is, of course, very...
View ArticleOn Best American, Transphobia, and Literary Editing
Thanks for taking the time to chat, Gabrielle Bellot and Berry Grass. First, a little bit of context for readers who are unfamiliar.The Winter, 2016, issue of The Antioch Review featured an essay...
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