Amanda Peters' "Waiting for the Long Night Moon" (Review)
Savannah Brooks
In 2021, archeologists in Saskatchewan uncovered a 200-person mass grave outside of an Indian boarding school that had been in operation until 1998. It was an unusual discovery in the sense of size, but finding disappeared children at these institutions wasn’t in itself unusual…
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Michael Paul Hogan's "Street Light Bolero" (Review)
Toti O’Brien
Michael Paul Hogan’s newly released short story collection leads the reader on a mesmerizing joyride, offering a variegated gamut of settings, characters, point of views, narrative styles and registers, among which the author seamlessly shifts, like a skilled racing driver or a consummate ballroom dancer.
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 10/10)
Toti O’Brien
Katia Hage’s “to a cypress” and J Michael Walker’s Anita Lets Her Feelings Show
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Interview with Julie Brill
Christina Gaskievicz
The Holocaust didn’t start with mass murder. It started with hatred, discrimination, and a climate of fear.
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 9/10)
Toti O’Brien
Toti O’Brien’s “Mother Tongue” and Nancy Kay Turner’s A Moveable Feast
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 8/10)
Toti O’Brien
Shahé Mankerian’s “Captured” and Gina Lawson’s Brimming with Regalia
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Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist (Interview with Sarah Boon)
Sasha Bailey
Boon’s new memoir explores the impact of climate change on glacial hydrology, the toxicity and sexism found in academia, and the role of mental health in choosing — and losing — one’s career.
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 7/10)
Toti O’Brien
Cindy Rinne’s “Soundscapes” and Toti O’Brien’s Úlfur Dottir
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 6/10)
Toti O’Brien
Kathabela Wilson’s “Source of the Nile” and Marina Moevs’ Fog VI
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 5/10)
Toti O’Brien
Katerina Canyon’s “Feet” and Anita Getlzer’s Evocation
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Conversation with Bonnie Tsui
Swetha Amit
Society always emphasizes its notions about how a woman should be—a skinny body, pretty, etc. I now see the pendulum swinging back toward muscular bodies, and strong women are being embraced much more.
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 4/10)
Toti O’Brien
Cynthia Anderson’s The Missing Peace and Peter Liashkov’s Olga Liachkoff (Rage).
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Interview with Helen Schulman
Jennifer Cho Salaff
Schulman’s funny, sexy, and wide-ranging new collection, her first in more than twenty-five years, is comprised of ten stories — one new and nine published over the past three decades — about relationships, sex, love, female agency, and people’s fierce attachments to each other
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 3/10)
Toti O’Brien
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s “I Was a Mediocre Mother” and Melinda Smith Altshuler’s Moving, Not Moving.
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"American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (Author Interview)
Rowan Tetro
Exploring the societal institutions that are founded on and perpetuate racism, white supremacy, and colonization, Lea’s book details her journey in moving beyond the racism ingrained in her family’s lineage and environment. Ultimately, American Bloodlines is about human connection and how kinship is our weapon against hate.
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Series, 2/10)
Toti O’Brien
Miriam Sagan’s “My Daughter in the Pacific” and Nadege Monchera Baer’s River.
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Adèle Rosenfeld: "Jellyfish Have No Ears" (Fiction review)
Elissa Greenwald
Rosenfeld compares the narrator’s hearing difficulties to the silences engulfing people whose stories are lost to time… The narrator seeks to restore them, countering our current difficulty hearing or heeding the past.
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"Mother Memory" (Art Exhibit Installment Series, Introduction)
Toti O’Brien
Mother Memory is an art exhibit that will open at Wonzimer (Los Angeles, Lincoln Heights) on August 15, 2025. A related poetry-and-performance event will take place on August 22. The exhibit will include a selection of work from nine artists. The event will showcase the work of seven poets and three performers.
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AURA: On Writing as Resistance — A Conversation with Hillary Leftwich
Jason Masino
It’s always been my belief that writing is a political act, an act of resistance, however we decide to use our words to do so. Our writing should absolutely reflect society and our environments as an act of resistance.
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The Invisible World Made Visible: Matt Daly’s Conversation with Cotton Mather and the Principles of Seeing
Douglas Cole
Daley's book is a reaching for clarity, a refining of vision to include those energetic threads that lie under the surface, perhaps unexamined, and to see those threads clearly for how they affect our understanding of this world and our place in it.
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