The Worst Kind of Want

Swan Huntley is the author of The Goddesses&nbsp;(2017) and We Could Be Beautiful&nbsp;(2016). She earned her MFA at Columbia University and has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. Her writings have appeared on Salon, The Rumpus, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.&nbsp;

Swan Huntley

The Best Kind of Scandal: On Liska Jacobs’s “The Worst Kind of Want”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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Swan Huntley is the author of The Goddesses&nbsp;(2017) and We Could Be Beautiful&nbsp;(2016). She earned her MFA at Columbia University and has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. Her writings have appeared on Salon, The Rumpus, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.&nbsp;

Swan Huntley

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The Best Kind of Scandal: On Liska Jacobs’s “The Worst Kind of Want”