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What Doesn’t Kill You: An Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark

by Jana Horn | July 2, 2019

What Doesn’t Kill You: An Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark

Poet Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of Wild Milk, a collection of surreal short stories that marks her debut in fiction. Wild Milk has been called a "necessary book for our perilous age" by Kirkus and a collection of "tales to wake you up at last" by author Edward Carey. Though short, these stories are deep as the ocean blue. You can drown or swim in them (and enjoy yourself either way). I recently spoke with Orah Mark, who opened up about where some of her wilder ideas come from, how she … [Read more...] about What Doesn’t Kill You: An Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Adrienne Kennedy, Amber Dermont, Anne Boyer, Bruno Schulz, Christine Schutt, Danny Khlalastchi, Donald Barthelme, Edward Carey, Elizabeth McCracken, fairytales, Fiction, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Hasidic violin, Jana Horn, Joseph Campbell, Kate Zambreno, Kirkus, Kristen Iskandrian, Leonora Carrington, Lucie Brock-Broido, Lydia Davis, Mary Ruefle, Mordechai Rosenstein, Oni Buchanan, Patti Smith, poetry, prose, PT Anderson, Reginald McKnight, Roger Miller, Sabrina Orah Mark, Samuel Beckett, The Power of Myth, Vladimir Nabokov, Wild Milk, Yusef Komunyakaa

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Issue 81

Guest-edited by Fernando A. Flores, featuring new stories by Yvette DeChavez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Carribean Fragoza, Alejandro Heredia, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

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Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

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“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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