Behind the Story with Kathryn Mockler

Today, Kathryn Mockler is taking us behind “I Won’t Clean the Tub,” a story from Anecdotes! The second section of Anecdotes is a series of linked autofictional coming-of-age stories. When the #MeToo Movement went viral in 2017, some survivors of abuse and sexual assault were sharing lists about all the times they had been harassed, assaulted, […]

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Short Story Month: Borges to Barthelme

Our Short Story Month continues with two highly immersive, darkly humorous collections that exist in the eye of the storm: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler and The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball. In a style of writing that manages to be both surreal and prophetic, Mockler and Ball build worlds out of the darkest […]

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