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Dubravka’s Fox
I’m on a rooftop watching the sky.
It’s almost 7pm.
Wind rustles a book in my lap.
Brief interview with John Leonard Prize-winner Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange leans against the wall near the entrance of the large spotlit room in which the reception for the National Book Critics Circle Awards is being held. He’s noticeably taller than the other partygoers, with a round, boyish face topped with a silky mop of black hair.
An interview with Mitchell S. Jackson, author of “Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family”
A book can change a life, even save one. That’s what a book did for Mitchell S. Jackson and now he has written a memoir with that same aspiration: Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family.
Upstate Dispatch: One Heard Road
There is Tom the carpenter, Jim the plumber, and Harry the heating guy whose hunting dog recently bit his nose off. Ladybird still sleeps in the bed, he tells me. Wasn’t her fault.
The Essence of Another: On the Convention of Eliding Names in Fiction
The literary device of eliding proper names of course predates Clarice Lispector (“Interrupted Story” was originally published in 1942).
Short-form interview with Christopher X. Shade, author of “The Good Mother of Marseille”
I think a lot about snow globes. We did not have snow globes in small town Alabama where I was raised. I’m fascinated by them probably because they were not in my childhood. The contained experience of a snow globe, when you pick it up and shake it…
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The winners of the 2026 Breakout Prize are Nico Amador in poetry, selected by Cynthia Cruz, and Imogen Osborne in prose, selected by Alexandra Kleeman.