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Emma Pattee

Emma Pattee is a climate journalist from Oregon.
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Author Q & A: Omar El Akkad on Gaza, Power, and the Stories Empires Steal

The award-winning author discusses his urgent new book and why we must resist the impulse to forget.
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It all began with a tweet.  In October 2023, weeks after Israel began bombing Gaza, the writer Omar El Akkad shared a video showing a destroyed city street in Gaza. El Akkad wrote, “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to […]

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Reading the Waves Fucks

Lidia Yuknavitch’s newest nonfiction celebrates the body, in all its slippery, squishy glory.
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[Read all of the articles in our Love/Sex issue HERE! Looking for a print copy? Look at this handy-dandy map!—eds.] The writer Garth Greenwell once wrote about attending a lecture at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and hearing a writer say that an ideal sex scene would be a single sentence “they sat down on the sofa…” […]

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Lidia Yuknavitch Q & A: Portland’s Proud Misfit Author on Her Novel Thrust, Climate Change, and Keeping Creativity Flowing

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Lidia Yuknavitch (left), the cover of her new novel Thrust (right) Andy MIngo and Michael Connors If anyone has been instrumental in keeping literary Portland weird, it’s Lidia Yuknavitch. From her bestselling books to her much-written-about writer’s group with local literary darlings Cheryl Strayed, Chuck Palahniuk, and Chelsea Cain, to her quirky, indescribable writing center […]

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