Rima Praspaliauskiene

Interview with Lisa Stevenson You aimlessly wander around the topic, gathering bits of wool.

Writing as wool gathering!

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Amerikonka: Life Between Lithuania and America by Rima Praspaliauskienė On a warm afternoon in late April 2001, I walked down Gedimino, smiling at spring. I was jet-lagged from my first trip to America and still intoxicated by its nature, food,...

Rima Praspaliauskienė grew up with stereotypes about the Lithuanian community in the US, but found herself beguiled after a move stateside

There she found out that some American Lithuanians had stereotypes about her too (a Tarybukė - or "little Soviet")

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Thank you for compiling the Granta pack!

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Biking for writing How cycling helped me finish graduate school

Biking for writing
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Interview with Agata Szczeszak-Brewer I'm going to write what I like

On writing in between academic and creative nonfiction genres, an interview with Agatha Brewer, the author of the award winning
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland and
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
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Author Ocean Vuong on 'the shared bond of survival' and his new novel Author Ocean Vuong talks about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. It centers on the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old college dropout and an 82-year-old with dementia.

The story of a tender relationship between Hai, Labas and Grazina, refugees from Vietnam and Lithuania.
Ocean Vuong: “Both Hai and Grazina are debris ejected from two horrifying geopolitical ruptures, but they are not trash”
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Amerikonka/Tarybukė - Vilnius Review What did we know about democracy? We fought for it. When Soviet tanks roared on Vilnius streets in 1990 and 1991, we were the ones who tried to understand why our predecessors didn’t resist in 1940. W...

My essay in Vilnius Review
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Beautiful essay about one adolescence: summer, bike, and a boy ripe with desire to harm a girl.
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" I always want the writing to carry the thinking, both the narrative and the scholarly story." An interview with the wonderful writer and anthropologist Angela Garcia. Writewhatyoulike is celebrating its first anniversary. @angleangarcia.bsky.social
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Greg Pierotti: You can produce good work and have a tortured relationship to writing.

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Interview with Anitra Grisales Editing as a dialogic process

Editing as a dialogic process: Interview with Anitra Grisales

By Writing Formation

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Once there was life…