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.
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Finding My Father
At age thirty-two, after years working as an exotic dancer, the daughter of a mysteriously absentee father finally puts together the pieces that had been missing her whole life.
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Towards Chinatown
Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.
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Death Proof
With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Quentin Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while he plays god with another piece of history.
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On Silence (or, Speak Again)
Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
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Shapes of Native Nonfiction: ‘The Basket Isn’t a Metaphor, It’s an Example’
The editors of “Shapes of Native Nonfiction” talk about the craft of writing, the politics of metaphor, and resisting the exploitation of trauma.
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‘My Teachers Said We Weren’t Allowed To Use Them.’
How Cecelia Watson learned to stop worrying and love the semicolon.
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Searching for The Sundays
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
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Pot Luck
Searching for justice in the newly legal weed economy