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For old-school southern writers, it seems, having roots in the South—being born there—is a key reason they’re classified as “southern writers.” Thinking of contemporary writers like Codrescu as “southern” is more complex. Though often intensely regional, movement is a central concern of his essays and poems.
The Push and Pull of the Small Town in The Annie Year
So what’s inside the fortified small town of The Annie Year? The intimacy of a man “unbuttoning his pants to make room for the prime rib to move through his system” at a diner booth.
Why Latinx Writers Should Decenter the Narratives That Have Been Weaponized Against Us
Just last week, I received maybe the first piece of editorial advice that I felt compelled to flat out reject: that Latinx writers have a moral obligation to not write stories in which Latinx characters are portrayed in the context of the drug war or violence or anything else that might reinforce stereotypes.