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She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

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She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

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“Don’t come out until I come back!”

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I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

The East is Red

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

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The Year in Empathy

People arrive at the ER every day looking for my help, and the uncomfortable truth is that I’m often so overwhelmed that I struggle to connect with them.

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On two movies about teenagers.

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The author of If I Survive You on the gift of humour, the impact of the housing crisis, and family legacy. 

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“Not here, not this school.” Until it is.

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I’m the first woman in the world to get a tattoo because she’s sad! I invented it!