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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Featured 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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In 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
It 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)…