Growing up in Texas meant vast options of fast food, even for my Chinese-American family whose eating habits leaned toward Buddhist vegetarian. As a matter of fact, it always seemed…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
The Erring Girls of Arlington, Texas
by Guest Contributor October 11, 2018Featured Image Credit: University of Texas, Arlington I was sitting in the tall grass, black plastic glasses falling off my face, a headlamp to my side. It was in late…
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Image Credit: Nsey Benajah One week out from Christmas, I am sitting in a narrow bathtub in my hotel room in Pine Mountain, Georgia. Mildew thrives in the poorly caulked…
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When my parents drove me from Dallas to New York City for college, we hid one of Dad’s handguns in the compartment under my feet in the back seat. I…
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How does the land we stand on define us? Does a place’s history and inheritance have bearing on its presence? Are some patterns that play out through time beyond our…
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Current EventsFeaturedPoetry
City of ____________: Dispatches from 16 Dallas Poets
by Joe Milazzo July 28, 2016In the long hours and longer days after the events of July 7, 2016 here in Dallas, Texas, the narrative I observed emerging was not so much “Why Dallas?” but…
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ConversationCraftFictionInterviewLiteratureTranslation
“A way of belonging to the future”: A Conversation With Carmen Boullosa
by Joe Milazzo June 11, 2015It may not be evident from the questions posed below, much less whatever line they may be drawing, sinking, etc., but Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014)…