A masterful and deeply heartful look into the lives of a diverse set of emotionally complicated characters in this short story collection set in Texas.
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Chaney Hill is an English, Ph.D. candidate at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She shares her home with one cat, three dogs, a fish, and her long-time partner. Outside of caring for her multi-species family, Chaney enjoys taking trips to the Texas Hill Country, writing, and eating elote from the neighborhood food truck. Her research interests include American literature of the South and the West, Critical Regionalism, Public Memory Studies, and Critical Texas Studies.
“Down Here We Come Up”: A Tale of Growth, Reconnection and Late-Blooming Coming-of-Age
Author Sara Johnson Allen shines a spotlight on the racial, political and social power dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border, and throughout the U.S., in this story of motherhood and strained familial love impacted by systems imposed upon them.
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V. Castro’s “The Haunting of Alejandra”: A Feminist Folk Lore Remedy
A review of the novel, “The Haunting of Alejandra,” by V. Castro.
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A Texan Renaissance
A roundup of some of the best of Texas’ literary scene.
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“Freedom House” Imagines a House for All
A review of KB Brookins’ volume of poetry, “Freedom House.”
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Confronting False Histories in “How the Word is Passed”
Clint Smith’s “How the Word is Passed” takes readers on a cross-country journey to sites that, just below the surface, harbor hidden histories of slavery.
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