“Please Accept This Token of Thanks” by Christine Vines, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Bret Anthony Johnston on Corpus Christi, Texas, returning to the short story in “Encounters With Unexpected Animals,” and the infinite similarities between writing and skateboarding
Characterized by the wish for peace, his art is being shunned during war
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SupportLarissa Pham on titles, the implications of the quotation mark, and the ways art imitates life in her debut novel, “Discipline”
His instinct was to get me out of there instead, and I never forgave him for it
The cover is a mix of heavy metal, Dominican history, and psychedelic dread
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“Please Accept This Token of Thanks” by Christine Vines, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Two poems by Rosebud Ben-Oni
“Paradeability” from ENCOUNTERS WITH UNEXPECTED ANIMALS by Bret Anthony Johnston, recommended by Téa Obreht
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