One of the best definitions of magical realism I’ve read comes from Debra Spark. In…
Lauren Alwan
Lauren Alwan
Lauren Alwan’s fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Southern Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, in the Bellevue Literary Review. She is the recipient of a First Pages Prize, the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, and.a citation of Notable in Best American Essays. Her essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, World Literature Today, The Rumpus, The Millions, Writer's Digest, and others. She is a prose editor at the museum of americana, an online literary review. Follow her on Twitter at @lauren_alwan and learn more at www.laurenalwan.com
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LitStack Recs: Memoirs of Place and The Dinosaur Heresies
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanOn Memoirs of Place: A Quick List I always appreciate a good memoir that centers…
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LitStack Rec: ‘Spring and All’ and ‘Honest Dogs’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSpring and All, William Carlos Willams In a frenzy that could have only taken…
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LitStack Recs: ‘Paris Stories’ and ‘The Book of Killowen’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanParis Stories Mavis Gallant When the news came Tuesday that the great story writer Mavis…
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LitStack Recs: ‘I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place’ and ‘Born to Pull’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanI Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place Howard Norman In the essay-as-memoir, the writer can…
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LitStack Rec: A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century and The Boys of My Youth
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Boys of My Youth, by Jo Ann Beard When it was released in 1998,…
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LitStack Rec: The Goldfinch and Exposure
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Goldfinch, Donna Tartt The reception Donna Tartt has garnered for her third novel, her…