Gut Feeling

In Strange Biology, Charlotte Strange digs into the microbiome and lets it spill out on the page

“For me, the curiosity of the microbe rests on the ambivalent outcomes of its extreme connectedness,” says writer Charlotte Strange: “Its capacity to spoil, sour, and upset, and the slipperiness with which it moves through medical and colloquial speech.” In their chapbook Strange Biology (Wendy’s Subway, 2025), a collection of essays, ...
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Gut Feeling

Writing Rooted in Community

Writing rarely ever comes from true solitude. That is the sentiment of author Giada Scodellaro, whose debut novel, Ruins, Child (New Directions, 2026) is a hybrid text on proximity, grief, growth, and kinship told through the interweaving stories of a community living in a dilapidated apartment complex. In a recent ...
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Writing Rooted in Community