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Litstack Recs: The Refugees & All the Light We Cannot See

The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen In celebration of #ShortStoryMonth, this week’s rec looks at another great story collection I’ve read and recommended this year. Fans of The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s debut novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, will find much of what they loved in the author’s second book of short stories. [….]

Litstack Rec: The Refugees: Stories & All Our Wrong Todays

The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Fans of The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s debut novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, will find much of what they loved in the author’s second book of short stories. Where The Sympathizer explores the effects of the Vietnamese War, and the experience of refugees’ displacement through the taut [….]

Birthdays

On this day, February 22, in 1892, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine. When she was still in her teens, she wrote the poem “Renascence” for a poetry contest which immediately catapulted her into fame, mainly because it took 4th place when it was obviously the superior work. An early feminist, her works often used images of female sexuality, and she was not reticent with displaying her own bisexuality. Her work, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1943 she was awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry. She died of a heart attack in 1950; she was only 58 years old.

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