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In the Country of Women

by Susan Straight August 6, 2019February 3, 2023

Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Five Quarters of the Orange: A Sense of Place in the Inland Empire

by Aaron Gilbreath March 9, 2020October 19, 2022

Author Susan Straight was born in Riverside, California and still lives in Riverside. For her, residents’ citrus trees and commeraderie are the ties that bound people in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area’s massive interior, and they’re what can sustain them through future hard times.

Posted inFeatured, Food, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Some Inland California History Begins with an Orange

by Aaron Gilbreath March 6, 2020October 19, 2022

Even as California’s Inland Empire loses its citrus industry to urbanization, urbanites can still keep social ties by planting fruit trees in their yards.

Posted inNonfiction

‘To Be Polite By Ignoring the Obvious’: Jess Row on Unpacking Whiteness in Literature

by Morgan Jerkins September 12, 2019January 27, 2023

“I was looking for texts that seem to go the extra mile in hiding something — texts that almost seem to be begging to be interpreted in terms of what’s not being said.”

Posted inNonfiction

Down the Rabbit Hole: A Psychedelic Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath July 1, 2020November 25, 2022

The science, the strangeness, the promise, of psychedelic journeys.

Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes

This Is the Excellent Foppery of the World

by michelleweber January 23, 2019October 19, 2022

Mercury’s in retrograde, so it’s a great day to read this post.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

How I Got My Shrink Back

by Susan Shapiro March 4, 2020December 16, 2022

An entanglement with her shrink-stalking protege teaches Susan Shapiro something about forgiveness.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Brown Girl with Bubblegum

by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg August 17, 2018October 19, 2022

As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.

Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Story

The Queer Generation Gap

by Soraya Roberts November 23, 2018October 19, 2022

How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I Don’t Think Those Feelings of Self-Doubt Ever Go Away.’

by Amy Brady April 9, 2019October 19, 2022

Susan Choi talks about feeling unsure of oneself, as a writer, as a performer — or as a victim — and about how her latest novel evolved in uncanny tandem with the real world.

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