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“Which secrets do we keep to protect ourselves and which do we keep to shield others?”
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“Selah Saterstrom, Rancher Every writer has certain books they return to when they feel stuck.”
“When murder escalates from a scheme to action, her secret becomes an unbearable burden to carry.”
“My grandfather’s name is Midori Shimoda.”
“One issue I’m having while writing this essay is that I have nothing interesting to say about rape.”
“What haunts me today, though, is how easily I agreed with my classmates’ vitriol for Lady MacBeth.”
“I thought a lot while reading about the trauma Marceau endured surviving the Holocaust, and about how it makes sense that silence became an essential part of his artistic self-expression.”
“In bursts of bright stanzas, Chen Chen transports us through the landscape of his childhood into his early twenties.”
“She co-curates, with Abby Hagler, a poetry interview series at Tarpaulin Sky Magazine.”
“/ For he looks happy & doesn’t know I’m looking & that makes his happiness free.” _____________________________________________ Freak Lip by Julia Cohen is available via Texas Review Press.”
“She is the author of three previous books, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press), Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press), and Triggermoon Triggermoon (Black Lawrence Press).”
“I felt like my body was a medical mystery, unknowable to me and impenetrable to anyone else.”
“A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause is composed of brief vignettes (one to two pages each) that take on the exciting pace of clicking through a 1970s View-Master.”
“Jaqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men (translated by Ros Schwartz) There are secrets within secrets in this work of speculative fiction: a nesting doll of secrets!”
“Long’s memoir spans three decades, deftly jumping into memories that track the development of her unrelenting headaches and the divide it creates in her family.”
“I lost friends who didn’t understand that when I felt too tired to even take a shower and had to cancel plans, it wasn’t because I didn’t want to see them.”
“How does keeping a secret uphold (or undermine) our identity, and how does our sense of self shift over time the longer we live with that secret?”
“When the protagonist makes it out of the bunker, it opens up an otherworldly, similarly disorienting experience of coincident joy and sorrow.”
“Shawn Wen writes, “Leave speech behind.”
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“Here are nine books that guided my understanding of how holding or exposing long-kept secrets creates a palpable tension between regret and relief.”
“I would have felt less lonely and more emboldened to share what I was going through in high school if I had been able to read a novel like this one.”
“Brandon Shimoda, The Grave on the Wall Accomplished poet and nonfiction writer Brandon Shimoda brings his love of lyricism to this memoir, a portrait of his grandfather that excavates a century of xenophobia and silence in America.”
“* Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl I can’t tell you how badly I needed this book back in the late 1990s—which is the era of Lawlor’s storyline—when I was a teenager and quietly struggling with my own gender expression and anxiety around being diagnosed with a sleeve hymen.”