Today, The Masters Review is thrilled to share Xuan Juliana Wang’s “For Our Children and For Ourselves” from her collection HOME REMEDIES, published in 2019. “For Our Children and For Ourselves” is about the choices and sacrifices we make in…
Elizabeth Brinsfield’s “Knitting Verse” is this week’s entry to our New Voices catalog! In the aftermath of her mother’s early death, the narrator of Brinsfield’s “Knitting Verse” is desperate for community, and so she turns to a farm school for…
In our first book review of August, reviewer Mrudhula M examines Richard Goodkin’s Mourning Light, out now from University of Wisconsin Press. Mourning Light is a book about “healing from grief,” our reviewer writes, one that doesn’t “shy away from……
Keely O’Shaughnessy’s beautiful debut collection, Baby is a Thing Best Whispered, is interested most of all in the complexities of certain familial relationships, with many of the short pieces here dealing with parenthood, both from the perspective of the children and of the parents—especially mothers and daughters. For more information, or to pre-order the book, visit Keely’s website. Ross: When did you first start writing stories? What drew you to writing initially? O’Shaughnessy: It’s in some sort of writer’s code…
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