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The Story I Can’t Write About My Family

In fiction, one needs motivations, wants, and fears; one needs cause and effect. In life, it’s messier.

Sep 14, 2017
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Why I Cannot Write About My Father

“There is no word that explains how girls love absent fathers.”

Jul 26, 2017
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“Unfinished”: On Process and Met Breuer’s “Thoughts Left Visible”

“I can’t help but be reminded of all the times I had put off major revisions in my manuscript in favor of tinkering with the minor.”

Sep 1, 2016
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Santiago

“He is sacred in Latino culture but also the object of the erasure of our histories.”

May 4, 2016