Q&A with Alejandro Heredia, author of Loca

I’m just really inspired by writers who write about their corner of their cities and do it in a way that even a hundred years later somebody is able to connect to that place.




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The photo looks down the middle between two long shelves of books in a library. There is a person crouching in between them, backlit by a window behind them. A ladder is also behind them.

Mole Galleries

Was there new information about the mole? Was the determination based purely on statistical modeling? I never received a response. I find it fitting. Biologists cannot reach the island. I cannot reach the biologist. All of us, arranged along a spectrum of restrictions. A series of silences.


A black and white photo of a young Asian woman with dark hair parted on one side. She smiles imperceptibly.

From the Archives: Becoming Ghost

He says: I want it to smell / like the real thing. // The real thing / is a landscape // of work and death–– / the names of our ancestors // slack in our mouths, / just the art of loving // your family line enough / to reproduce it.


Image shows a close up of several differently colored river pebbles scattered across a white linen cloth. Sunlight shines from one corner, illuminating the stones.

Ode

I wanted to stay forever in / that rocking place.


Photo of a flower bush with pink and reddish petals and yellow buds. Some of the flower petals curve around the thin silver bars of a chain-link fence. Photo is by Parker Coffman.

(Reassignment)

illness is an appropriate
body in the polity
state