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Fall 2025 Issue 27.2

Featuring essays by Emily Collins, Carrie Messenger, Wendy S. Palmer, Elizabeth Logan Harris, Sibbie O’Sullivan, Stephanie Anderson, Marianne Janack, Suzanne Roberts, Andrew Bertaina, Jeanne Kay, Lindsey Pharr, Debra Dean, Sarah Olson, Beth Alvarado, Jerry Mathes, Brad Aaron Modlin, Claire Hansen, Jeanine Eyre Bee,. Review Essays by Susan Ito and Amy Lee Scott.

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Drawing the Mall

Drawing the Mall

“Drawing the Mall,” by Brian Kearney is our 2022 Muiltimedia contest winner. Judge Kristen Radke called the essay “a slightly-deranged, entirely-beautiful love letter to an American institution that ‘has seasons but it has no weather.’ I’ll genuinely never look at a food court the same way again. I fell in love, too.”

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Who Do We Talk To?

Who Do We Talk To?

For the past year, I have clicked on the Bookshop link to buy a book for every Zoom reading I attended. I agreed to receive a review copy from four publishers. I say yes, I can peer review this book for a university press. In the middle of the pandemic, I have no friends. I have no family. But I do have one hundred and fifty collections of essays per day per day squared…

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