Asterisms

“how to run / out of our own flesh—”: A Review of Grace Shuyi Liew’s Careen

Writing about the musician Mitski, Jia Tolentino argues that, “there is a notion, informed by…

Wanting Rooms: Carley Moore and Nicole Calihan in Conversation

Across time and space, Carley Moore and Nicole Calihan meet to have a conversation to…

Ayşe Papatya Bucak: On Optimism in the Face of War, the History of Sponge-Diving, and Having an Open Borders Imagination

Bucak’s wry humor and easy storyteller’s voice persists throughout her collection, The Trojan War Museum…

Beyond Borders: Immigrant Women Writers In Conversation

Angie Cruz: In response to Trump’s election and the rise of the #metoo movement, Irina…

Sean Gandert: What does it mean to be a person while the world is burning?

Set in Albuquerque and steeped in magic and Catholicism, Sean Gandert’s novel American Saint uses…

Francesca Marzia Esposito: Writing Diagonally

Translated from the Italian by Jeanne Bonner and Joshua Graber Aster(ix): In the story, Autumn…

American Saint – Chapter 1

I don’t care what you heard, my mother was not a witch. She was a…

AWP Panel: Aster(ix) Five Years Later

AWP Panel: Aster(ix) Five Year Later, A Conversation with Angie Cruz, Patricia Engel, Stephanie Elizondo…

On Vinyl, This Love: A Conversation with Carol C.

I met up with Carol C at Esther & Carol’s on Broome Street, NYC over…

Gardens or Guns: Climate Change, Race and the Future A Conversation with Angie Cruz, Erica Hunt, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Dawn Lundy Martin and giovanni singleton

Angie Cruz: Ever since the new report on climate change was released I’ve had numerous…