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Interview: Jeannie Vanasco

Image is the book cover for "A Silent Treatment" by Jeannie Vanasco. Title card for the new interview with Jeannie Vanasco.

  Memoirist Jeannie Vanasco’s third book, A Silent Treatment, will be released by Tin House on September 9. Jeannie’s mother starts using the silent treatment shortly after she moves into a renovated apartment in Jeannie’s home. Over the five years…

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Interview: Tamara Dean

Image is the book cover for "Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless" by Tamara Dean. Title card for the new interview with Tamara Dean.

  I’m not sure I’ve ever come across any other region named as evocatively as the Driftless region of Wisconsin. Driftless: the word itself refers to the area’s lack of glacial deposits (or “drift”), as the land was passed by…

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Interview: Ashley Whitaker

Image is the book cover for "Bitter Texas Honey" by Ashley Whitaker. Title card for the new interview with Ashley Whitaker.

  In Ashley Whitaker’s hilarious, satirical, and at times devastating debut novel, Bitter Texas Honey, we follow Joan, a recent college graduate with an Adderall problem who wants nothing more than to be a writer. Her biggest obstacle? She’s plagued…

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Interview: Shayne Terry

Image is the book cover for the interview for "Leave: A Postpartum Account" by Shayne Terry. Title card for the new interview with Shayne Terry.

  On an early spring day in Flatbush, I sat down with my friend and neighbor, Shayne Terry. Our five-year-olds went out with their fathers while we talked about Terry’s debut book, Leave: A Postpartum Account, which came out this…

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