Indigenous Writers Deserve More Credit for Being Hilarious

Tiffany Midge is the author of several books including the recent memoir Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, a collection of prose that blends humor with social commentary and meditations on love and loss. Her poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear won Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry and a Western […] The post Indigenous Writers Deserve More Credit for Being Hilarious appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is a Beautiful Memory

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Leaving the Church to Find Spiritual Nourishment

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Aaron Carter’s unfinished memoir will be released less than a month after his death.

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