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Want Me by Tracy Clark-Flory

Dear Tracy Clark-Flory, In the years before reading your book Want Me, I struggled with an ineffable confusion around the role sex has played in...

Finding Querencia by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Dear Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Finding Querencia should be handed to every child of immigrants and child of mixed descent in America. I would have given...

Ricochet Script by Alexandra van de Kamp

Dear Alexandra van de Kamp, In Mrs. Dalloway, the character Septimus Warren declares, “Beauty, the world seemed to say.” He goes on to list the...

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Dear Natalie Diaz, The pieces you’ve given us in Postcolonial Love Poem speak to the heaviness of caring intimately for others in the storms of...

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Dear Matthew Salesses, Thank you for writing, Craft In The Real World. It’s one of the most important books I’ve read in quite some time....

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Dear Aimee Nezhukumatathil, As a kid, I had an unfounded obsession with the ocean. It was a strange fascination, considering we lived in Muncie, Indiana—447...

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

Dear Ms. Hong, Thank you for your ingratitude. Thank you for the elegance of your anger. You have elucidated this anger, which remains in many...

Appropriate: A Provocation by Paisley Rekdal

Dear Ms. Rekdal, Thank you for the intellectual sensitivity with which you probe the question of cultural appropriation in Appropriate. It’s incredibly easy for me,...

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

Dear Melissa, Early in 2020, I truly committed to being alone. I had recently accepted and embraced my queerness after spending the previous decade in...

Cooking For Her Eyes by Susan Uehara Rakstang

Dear Susan Uehara Rakstang, This book reminded me of a piece of theory written by Abrams called “The Speech of Things”¹. The piece introduces the...

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