Susan Stinson
@susanstinson.bsky.social
Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Essays in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies and The Portable Feminist Reader. Triker. she/her.
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I had just heard that Stephanie Vaughn, author of Sweet Talk, an enormous influence on me, had died. She was so brilliant: she only published one book, but it was an immortal one,
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The Enduring Magic of Stephanie Vaughn’s Sweet Talk
<em>Editor’s Note: For the first several months of 2022, we’ll be celebrating some of our favorite work from the last fourteen years in a series of “From the Archives” posts.</em>
<em>In today’s feature, Forrest Anderson revels in the spell cast by Stephanie Vaughn's one and only collection,</em> Sweet Talk.<em> This essay was...</em>
fictionwritersreview.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I had just heard that Stephanie Vaughn, author of Sweet Talk, an enormous influence on me, had died. She was so brilliant: she only published one book, but it was an immortal one,
fictionwritersreview.com/essay/the-en...
fictionwritersreview.com/essay/the-en...
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Sea, Poison might be the weirdest book you'll read this year, maybe any year. But as absurd as Beilin's story of brain lasers, stuffed leopards. polyamory, pop culture references, art monsters, & art failures, is Beilin's book really more absurd than the American healthcare system?
Sea, Poison by Caren Beilin
A darkly funny, electrifying tale of polyamory, illness, health-care malfeasance, and gynecological crime mixed with Oulipian madness
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December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Sea, Poison might be the weirdest book you'll read this year, maybe any year. But as absurd as Beilin's story of brain lasers, stuffed leopards. polyamory, pop culture references, art monsters, & art failures, is Beilin's book really more absurd than the American healthcare system?
Thanksgiving was their 71st anniversary.
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Thanksgiving was their 71st anniversary.
Hi Beth! And, yes. I should read more Bill McKibben.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hi Beth! And, yes. I should read more Bill McKibben.
Thanks for telling me! It's dense with a kind of terrible beauty. All of those voices. The music. The models for ways to move today.
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Thanks for telling me! It's dense with a kind of terrible beauty. All of those voices. The music. The models for ways to move today.
I love them so.
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I love them so.
Waiting on a cold bench so I don't mess up my neck more carrying my bag home. But my bag has warm things in it. I am putting them on. Thank you for keeping me company. It was a sweet day. This part, not so much.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Waiting on a cold bench so I don't mess up my neck more carrying my bag home. But my bag has warm things in it. I am putting them on. Thank you for keeping me company. It was a sweet day. This part, not so much.