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About the Work: Andrea England
About the Work: Andrea England In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Andrea England 's work in SER Vol. 43.2. “ Self Portrait as a Wind Turbine Blade in the Midwest ” Personal geographies figure heavily in my work, and “Self Portrait as a Wind Turbine Blade in the Midwest” is no different. In 2016, wind turbines were erected on our family farm, surrounding the town w
Mar 22 min read
About the Work: Ben Peled
About the Work: Ben Peled In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Ben Peled's work in SER Vol. 43.2. “ The Mathematician Presents ” Years ago, during Glenn Beck's heyday on Fox, Jon Stewart used to do a parody of his show. Donning a pair of fake glasses, he would stand at a board stabbing out lines of chalk to connect the most insanely disparate ideas. That sketch is w
Feb 161 min read
About the Work: Kandala Singh
About the Work: Kandala Singh In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Kandala Singh's work in SER Vol. 43.1. “ Four Seasons, Chicago ” This ekphrastic piece emerged while bumbling around downtown Chicago in November 2022, when the sense of living between two worlds was still fresh. I had recently moved from India to the US— in that state of transition, my senses were he
Feb 22 min read
About the Work: Sarah Hare
About the Work: Sarah Hare In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Sarah Hare 's work in SER Vol. 43.1. “Results of My Depression Screening Three Weeks After My Dad Died” Soon after my Dad died, I started writing down fragments about him that I wanted to process or remember. These snippets had no narrative throughline. The next spring, I read Miller and Paola’s Tell It
Jan 122 min read
About the Work: Danica Li
About the Work: Danica Li In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Danica Li 's work in SER Vol. 43.1. “Queen of Hearts, Queen of Swords” This story was based on my experience from many years ago working as a young lawyer representing a group of female dancers in a wage theft class action against a strip club. Among the dozens of cases I’ve handled before and since over
Dec 8, 20252 min read
An Interview with Holly Brickley
An Interview with Holly Brickley Braulio Fonseca Braulio Fonseca: I have been investigating fiction authors incorporating some forms of non-fiction or at least some elements of truth into their narratives. What is your process? How did this novel come to be? Holly Brickley : I love your subject here. I’ve always wanted to write a rock novel because I felt that was the one new thing I could bring to the tradition—the talking about the songs. Most rock novels focus on context,
Oct 27, 20259 min read
An Interview with Giorgio Celin
An Interview with Giorgio Celin Haley Laningham Giorgio Celin currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. He creates vibrant works...
Oct 7, 20257 min read
An Interview with Melissa Chalhoub
An Interview with Melissa Chalhoub Haley Laningham Melissa Chalhoub, a versatile artist blending a background in cinema and visual art,...
Sep 7, 20254 min read
An Interview with Ruben Reyes
An Interview with Ruben Reyes Leslie-Ann Murray A remarkably self-assured and thrilling debut novel...The book starts with a Cambridge...
Jul 22, 20259 min read
An Interview with Cleo Qian
An Interview with Cleo Qian Li Zhuang The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go explore the...
May 16, 20259 min read
An Interview with Larysa Myers
An Interview with Larysa Myers Haley Laningham See more of Larysa Myers’s work here . The suite of Larysa Myers’s work we have taken for...
Apr 7, 20257 min read
About the Work: Stephanie Early Green
About the Work: Stephanie Early Green In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight...
Apr 4, 20252 min read
Book Review: A Review of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s The Parachutist
A Review of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s The Parachutist By Natalie Tombasco As I write this review, it is Inauguration Day in America. A focal...
Feb 28, 20254 min read
An Interview with David Greenspan
An Interview with David Greenspan Emilio Carrero David Greenspan is the author of One Person Holds So Much Silence (Driftwood Press) and...
Feb 13, 202510 min read
About the Work: Kate Pyontek
About the Work: Kate Pyontek In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight into...
Jan 31, 20252 min read
About the Work: Kenneth Chacon
About the Work: Kenneth Chacon In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight into...
Jan 10, 20252 min read
About the Work: Lindsey Pharr
About the Work: Lindsey Pharr In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight into...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
About the Work: Francesca Leader
About the Work: “Cowboy” by Francesca Leader In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for...
Dec 6, 20242 min read
An Interview with Ben Purkert
An Interview with Ben Purkert Tom Sokolowski Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. He’s the agency’s hottest...
Nov 29, 202413 min read
An Interview with Darci Schummer
An Interview with Darci Schummer Casie Minot Darci Schummer hails from the village of Fall Creek, Wisconsin. Primarily a fiction writer,...
Nov 5, 202412 min read
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