Every Woman Extends Backwards: On Alexis Landau’s “The Mother of All Things”
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Alexis Landau’s “The Mother of All Things.”
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk is the chair of the Antioch MFA and the executive director of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in Alta, The Believer, The New York Times, and Electric Literature. Her first novel, Open Me, was published by Grove Atlantic in 2018. She writes a newsletter called Not Knowing How.
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk reviews Alexis Landau’s “The Mother of All Things.”
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