Lisa Locascio

Lisa Locascio's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Sou'wester, American Short Fiction, Faultline, Wigleaf, and other journals, as well as in the anthology California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State. An Endowed Fellow at the University of Southern California, she lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a novel and a monograph about contemporary American literature by women.

Experimenting on Faith: Ryan McIlvain's "Elders"

Inlaid with darkness and violence, Elders is the story of disaffected young men’s machinations towards adulthood through the apparatus of the Church....

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My Bolaño Archive

1. THE FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION of the papers and personal effects of the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño is the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) exhibit “Bolaño Archive. 1977–2003,” the ...

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A Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s “The Sad Passions”

ARTISTIC PREOCCUPATION with the consequences of teenage maternity is among the most vibrant geists of our current zeit, from 17 Girls, 2011’s somnolent French reimagining of the 2008 Massachusetts “pregnancy pact,” to MTV’s inescapable Teen Mom franchise. And although ...

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The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of God

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Lizard Brains: On "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets"

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Waking from the Dream of Alaska

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