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Jane Yager
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Fiction & CNF writer. Recent stories in Gooseberry Pie, Los Angeles Review, Coachella Review, Ekphrastic Review; forthcoming from V&Q Books. Criticism in TLS, Paris Review Daily. Based in Berlin, originally from California, frequently in Poland.
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Some really excellent writing and reporting here on the monstrous absurdity of ICE in New Orleans.
Excerpt from linked article: "even stipulating that America is a nation of immigrants, and that the persecution of immigrants is an insult to our history wherever it occurs in this land, it must still be said that launching a violent government purge of immigrants is even more ludicrously monstrous when it happens in New Orleans. In New Orleans! A city that for centuries has collected drifters from Europe and dreamers from the Caribbean and schemers from Central America and prisoners from Africa, and has molded all their descendants into a culture unmatched anywhere else in this plastic country."
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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"...writing a novel is like being lost in the dark woods, and writing a short story is like being set upon by wolves... writing flash is like stepping on fire ants." Erin McGraw, expanding on Flannery O'Connor in @necessaryfiction.com: necessaryfiction.com/interviews/a...
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM