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An (almost) perfect day
Anne De Gelas
‘I think of the self-portrait as a mirror of all the violence that befalls us.’
Greg Jackson | First Sentence
Greg Jackson
‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’
The Cage of You
Kerry Howley
‘They treated their bodies like some exotic animal they’d found fast asleep, beings they needed to wake to truly know.’
After Zero Hour
Janine di Giovanni
‘It seemed there was a little piece of Iraqi earth inside me that refused to let me go.’
Anjali Joseph | First Sentence
Anjali Joseph
‘I kept returning to the Beckett stories, a favourite since I came upon them in my late teens.’
The Abyss
Rafael Frumkin
‘I came home this past fall to the Chicago suburb where I’d lived with my parents from age nine until I left for college in 2008, and I moved back into my childhood bedroom.’
Self-Made Man
Mark Gevisser
Mark Gevisser examines the personal, political and social issues of transgender identity in America.
