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Litro Summer 2019 Edition: Desire
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Writers featured in this inaugural issue of Litro USA speak of the desires of the body, of the flesh. Some speak more to a body politic or “real” politic. They all, including the poetic writer and translator Lawrence Schimel whose prose sparkles and sears with the heat of eroticsm; Chika Onyenezi who brings us nostalgic longings; Hannah Seidlitz whose melancholic desire sings; and Ingrid Norton who offers us dreamy prose, contribute dutifully and beautifully to this exploration of this most basic and complicated thing we all share: desire. Remember their names as, over time, you’ll want to grab more of their work.
Description
Litro USA — Summer Edition: Desire (2019)
Cover design: Noa Gravesky
Desire explores intimacy, longing, restraint, and the private negotiations that shape our inner lives. This Summer 2019 edition of Litro USA brings together established and emerging voices examining desire in its many forms — emotional, political, erotic, and unresolved.
The issue features fiction and nonfiction that move between the personal and the social, resisting easy conclusions in favour of complexity, contradiction, and formal control.
Contents
Editor’s Letter
Eric Akoto
Guest Editor’s Introductory Note
Ira Silverberg
Nadia Owusu — A Good Mask
Chika Onyenezi — Complicated Blues
Lawrence Schimel — Fresh Sheets and Five Other Short Shorts
Frederick McKindra — Unmastered Desires
Ingrid Norton — Into the Pleroma
Laila Halaby — Court
Leah Dworkin — The Little Mermaid
Hannah Seidlitz — Homebound
This is a restored digital archive edition. Originally published Summer 2019.
