Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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America's Civilian labor force participation rate continues to slide. In the twenty-first century, these 2026 lows have only been matched by the early COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021.
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What will my sister think?
"That brings me to another question that memoir writers often ask: What about the privacy of the people I write about? Should I leave out things that might hurt or offend my relatives? What will my sister think?
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