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Lunch Specials

Issue 28: Winter/Spring 2026

It’s Never One Thing: On Translation and Subversion; a Conversation with Dr. Sorcha de Brún

November 30, 2025/in Interviews, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2026 / Interviewed by paparouna
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Issue 27: Summer/Fall 2025

Becoming: A Multimodal Exploration of Identity & Family with Cathy Linh Che

May 24, 2025/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2025 / Interviewed by Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Issue 26: Winter/Spring 2025

Morgan Parker on Poetry, Prose, and the Power of Curiosity

November 8, 2024/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2025 / Interviewed by Paula Williamson
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Issue 25: Summer/Fall 2024

Nothing is Wasted: Poet Ellen Bass on Craft

May 17, 2024/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2024 / Interviewed by Scott LaMascus
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Issue 24: Winter/Spring 2024

Betting On Your Authentic Self: A Conversation with Cleyvis Natera

November 22, 2023/in Interviews, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2024 / Interviewed by Paula Williamson
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Issue 23: Summer/Fall 2023

Modern Issues in Historical Fiction: An Interview with Vanessa Hua

May 30, 2023/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2023 / Interviewed by EJ Saunders
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Issue 22: Winter/Spring 2023

Manifesting Social Change: An Interview with Kavita Das

December 4, 2022/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2023 / Interviewed by Rochelle Newman-Carrasco
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Issue 21: Summer/Fall 2022

Nothing Is One Thing: An Interview with Diane Seuss

June 2, 2022/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2022 / Interviewed by Kirby Chen Mages
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Issue 20: Winter/Spring 2022

Translation, an Echo of Love: An Interview with Robin Davidson

December 4, 2021/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2021 / Interviewed by Kelly Riggle Hower
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Issue 19: Summer/Fall 2021

On Novels and Screenplays, Character Tropes, and Black Horror: An Interview with Tananarive Due

June 9, 2021/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Barbara Platts
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Issue 18: Winter/Spring 2021

Translation, an Echo of Love: An Interview with Robin Davidson

December 4, 2021/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2021 / Interviewed by Kelly Riggle Hower
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Immigrants, Survivors, and Translingual Poetry: An Interview with Piotr Florczyk

December 6, 2020/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special / Interviewed by Amanda Woodard
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Issue 17: Summer/Fall 2020

Angela Morales, Author and Essayist

June 7, 2020/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Regan Humphrey
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Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020

Chris Feliciano Arnold, Author

December 2, 2019/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Buffy Visick
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Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019

Carmen Maria Machado, Author

June 8, 2019/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2019 / Interviewed by Kate Carmody
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Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Author of The Fact of a Body

November 19, 2018/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by E.P. Floyd
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Issue 13: Summer/Fall 2018

Percival Everett, Author

May 29, 2018/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2018 / Interviewed by Jesus Francisco Sierra
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Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Author of The Fact of a Body

November 19, 2018/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2019 / Interviewed by E.P. Floyd
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Victoria Chang, Author of Barbie Chang

November 23, 2017/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Theresa Rogers
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Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

Margo Jefferson, Author of Negroland

May 18, 2017/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Angela Bullock
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Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

Maggie Nelson, Author of The Red Parts

November 15, 2016/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Diana Odasso
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Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016

Daniel José Older, Author of Shadowshaper

May 14, 2016/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Alex Simand
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Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016

Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of The Small Backs of Children

November 16, 2015/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2016 / Interviewed by Kirsten Larson
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Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015

Roxane Gay, Author of An Untamed State

May 27, 2015/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2015 / book review and author interview by Melissa Greenwood
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Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015

Antonia Crane, Author of Spent

December 3, 2014/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2015 / Book review and author interview by Rachael Warecki
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Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

Kiese Laymon, Author of Long Division

June 5, 2014/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2014 / Book reviewed by Allie Marini Batts; author interviewed by Jamie Moore and Daniel José Older
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Issue 4: Winter/Spring 2014

Catherine M. Wilson, Author of the Trilogy When Women Were Warriors

November 23, 2013/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2014 / Trilogy reviewed by Marissa Cohen; author interviewed by Lise Quintana
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Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013

Alan Heathcock, Author

May 20, 2013/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2013 / Interviewed by Lee Stoops
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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Being A Girl is Hard

November 28, 2025/in Blog / Shawn Elliott
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Diagnosis: Persisted or Silent Inheritance

November 7, 2025/in Blog / Paula Williamson
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The Queer Ultimatum Made Me Give My Own Ultimatum

September 26, 2025/in Blog / Lex Garcia
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The Lilac and The Housefly: A Tale of Tortured Romanticism

October 24, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Nikki Mae Howard
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Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

I Try So Hard Not to Bite Off His Tongue & One Poem

November 21, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Sheree La Puma
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Those from sadness – Found Poem

November 14, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Yirui Pan
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My Town

October 31, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Shoshauna Shy
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Editing issue 28, I felt something similar to the way I feel near water: I dove into my own private world. The world above the surface kept roaring, of course. The notifications, deadlines, the constant noise was always there. But inside the work, inside these poems and stories and artwork, there was a quiet that felt entirely mine. A place where I could breathe differently.

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