Michelle Chihara (MFA, PhD UC Irvine) is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College, where she teaches contemporary American literature and creative writing. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Studies in American Fiction, n+1, Trop Magazine, the Green Mountains Review, the Santa Monica Review, Echoes, Mother Jones, and the Boston Phoenix, among others. Her research involves real estate, financial panics and contemporary culture. You can find her online at http://michelle-chihara.com.
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LARB Lit: Choose
Choose! A Journey Through Adolescence!! CHOOSE FROM 47 ENDINGS!! Choose Your Own Adventure is a trademarked copyright of Halt MacFillian Youth. © ...
You’re The Puppet: Trump, the Death of Truth, and the Silence of the Left
Tom Zoellner and Michelle Chihara on recreating a shared vision of a progressive nation....
Neighbors
Michelle Chihara on her family's history during Japanese internment and holding on to hope....
What We Talk About When We Talk About Finance
The idea that finance is the naturally complex lifeblood of our economy whose path only a rarefied group of white men can chart: that’s a trope....
Kingmakers
True Detective and the HBO Brand...
Being Theon Greyjoy, or Why This Dick In A Box Matters
Politics of the penis in government and Game of Thrones....
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