A Big Shitty Party: Six Parables of Writing about Other People | Journal
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A Big Shitty Party: Six Parables of Writing about Other People By Melissa Febos Buy the Issue Toggle Table of Contents Mar/Apr 2022 Vol. XLIV No. 2 Fiction Angela Woodward Ink Jennifer Croft Anaheim Willa C. Richards What Can’t Be Grown Must Be Mined Jared Jackson Bebo Daniel J. O’Malley The Allens Why We Chose It Elliott Holt Why We Chose It: “Bebo” by Jared Jackson Richie Hofmann Why We Chose It: “Human Resources” by Ryann Stevenson Nonfiction Dylan Reynolds Butchers Erika Veurink Pioneer Days Annalisa Bolin Like Dogs Poetry Major Jackson Of Wolves and Imagination Ryann Stevenson Human Resou
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