In Tayyba Kanwal’s story collection, “Talking with Boys,” characters are in constant flux. Motion becomes an act of survival and self-definition for those whose lives are circumscribed by expectation.
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Lael Flores is a Chicana writer from Pennsylvania. She holds a BS in Mathematics and an MA in English from Indiana University. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in the Southern Review of Books and Azahares Literary Magazine. She serves as a reader at Qu Literary Magazine and is currently revising her debut novel, The Pleasant Lea Mystery, with St. Martin’s Press.
“Midnight in Memphis”: Noteworthy Southern Noir
Thomas Dann’s debut is much more than a typical whodunit.
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Three Women in Exile Ache for Cuba in “The Eternal Forest”
A review of Elena Sheppard’s memoir, “The Eternal Forest.”
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“Forget Me Not” Is a Twisty and Turny Psychological Thriller
A review of Stacy Willingham’s “Forget Me Not.”
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