“The Apartment” Explores How People Create Homes and Foster Community

Author Ana Menéndez creates the history of Apartment 2B, showing the kind of communities we might build if we included those who came before us.

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Community, Friendship, and Belonging Anchor “Wonder State”: An Interview with Sara Flannery Murphy

Sara Flannery Murphy debates art as calling or curse in this conversation about her third novel.

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Wanderlust, Reinvention and Authenticity in “With Hawks and Angels”

Joel Lafayette Fletcher III recounts his adventures finding himself as a gay man in a time when it could get him killed in this memoir.

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Fanning the Flames with Cathy Ulrich’s “Small, Burning Things”

Bradley Sides interview Cathy Ulrich about her new collection of short stories, “Small, Burning Things.”

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Home, Lives and Family Bonds Tested by Secrets, Choice and Chance in “Banyan Moon”

Author Thao Thai weaves together the stories of three generations of Vietnamese-American women into this “perfect” summer read with elements of magical realism and Southern Goth.

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The Brothers Grimm, but Feminist: Stacy Sivinski’s “Fairy Tales of Appalachia”

A review of Stacy Sivinski’s new book, “Fairy Tales of Appalachia.”

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“Maybe This Is What I Deserve” Delivers Disorienting Flash Fantasy

Tucker Leighty-Phillips’ debut story collection is both nonsensical and fulfilling.

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“The Great American Everything” Is a Quiet, Memorable Debut

Social injustices are at the heart of Scott Gloden’s short story collection.

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Lyrical Memories in Glenn Taylor’s “The Songs of Betty Baach”

A review of Glenn Taylor’s new novel, “The Songs of Betty Baach.”

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