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Non-Fiction by Non-Men: Taylor Harris

E.B. Bartels — Wed, 18 May 2022 02:32:35 +0000

For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.
Published on May 17, 2022.

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Taylor Harris is a writer, wife, and mom to three who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work has appeared in TIME, O Quarterly, The Washington Post, Longreads, The Cut, Romper, Parents, McSweeney’s, Catapult, and other publications. Her debut memoir, This Boy We Made, was published by Catapult in January 2022.

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Non-Fiction by Non-Men: Kristin Keane

E.B. Bartels — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:45:20 +0000

For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.
Published on April 13, 2022.

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Kristin Keane is the author of the memoir An Encyclopedia of Bending Time and the novella Luminaries. Her writing and research have or will appear in/at the Washington Post, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.

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Just Being in Litro Magazine!

E.B. Bartels — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:32:06 +0000

It’s spring again, and I’m still here, still sitting, still inside. At my desk, I gaze out the window at sparks of green, glimmers of yellow and purple, as daffodils, crocuses, new grass make their way into the warming world. Spring makes me want to get out and move – to go for long walks, to travel to new places, to see old friends, to roll around in a meadow. But instead, I’m sitting still, because I know that is what I need to do to help myself and help others. Being still sometimes feels like giving up. Being still feels like acting helpless. Being still doesn’t feel like enough. I usually think of helping as an active gesture; the words “action” and “active” have the same root, the Latin verb for “do.” But sometimes, I’ve learned, you can take action by doing nothing. Sometimes you can help by simply being still.

I started writing this essay three years ago. it has gone through many iterations and it took me a long time to figure out what it really was all about, but finally now it is now up on Litro Magazine and I am so happy to have it out in the world. Click here to read it.

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