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Jessie Sza­lay

Jessie Szalay’s writ­ing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Aspara­gus, The For­ward, Nation­al Geo­graph­ic Trav­el­er, and as a notable in the Best Amer­i­can Essays of 2017. She lives in Salt Lake City where she teach­es writ­ing in a prison edu­ca­tion program.
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Fic­tion
Take What You Need
Idra Novey
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Fic­tion
Can­ción
Eduardo Halfon; Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, trans. 
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Fic­tion
Last Resort
Andrew Lipstein
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Fic­tion
Hap­py for You
Claire Stanford
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Fic­tion
Cheeky: A Head-to-Toe Memoir
Ariel­la Elovic
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Fic­tion
The Brit­tanys
Brit­tany Ackerman
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Non­fic­tion
Nues­tra Améri­ca: My Fam­i­ly in the Ver­ti­go of Translation
Claudio Lomnitz
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Fic­tion
The Imper­fects
Amy Mey­er­son
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Ser­e­nade for Nadia
Zülfü Livaneli, Brendan Freely (trans.)  
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Costale­gre
Court­ney Maum
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Strangers and Cousins
Leah Hager Cohen
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Fic­tion
Calm Sea and Pros­per­ous Voy­age: Select­ed Stories
Bette How­land
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Long Live the Tribe of Father­less Girls: A Memoir
T Kira Madden
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The Lake on Fire
Rosellen Brown
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Fic­tion
Mourn­ing
Eduardo Halfon; Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn, trans.
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‘Mar­veling at How We Pulled Through’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Zib­by Owens

Jessie Sza­lay
April 26, 2021

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