Tag: writing

  • An Essay on Women’s Fiction in the 20th Century

    An Essay on Women’s Fiction in the 20th Century

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    Catherine Hu
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    “Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history” – Virgina Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ The existences of women in fiction and reality are inextricably linked: the lives of literary women have, and always will, mirror…

  • Gospel For the Wayward Daughters

    Gospel For the Wayward Daughters

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    Catherine Hu
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    Preface and writer’s note: “How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?” I recently read an excerpt of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Having come across themes of the Southern Gothic in my school studies of Tennessee Williams (who is quickly…

  • July Thirst

    July Thirst

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    Catherine Hu
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    This poem was first published in Vol.1 of Cycles by Juniper Zine. You can read it here. The watermelon splits on the porch step—a sound like summer cracking its knuckles.Not like a broken promise,but a girl’s kneesswinging over the fence, daring the world to catch her. Pink flesh, too bright for the hour, bleeds into…

  • Painting Ghosts: A Review of No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

    Painting Ghosts: A Review of No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

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    Catherine Hu
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    Trigger warning: this review contains discussion of mental health, depression, drug abuse, and suicide.  ‘If we knew the antonym of crime, I think we would know its true nature. God… salvation … love … light. But for God there is the antonym Satan, for salvation is perdition, for love there is hate, for light there…