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Lauren Alwan

Lauren Alwan is a writer whose fiction and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Catapult, and others.

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Missing What You Don’t Remember

Writer Lauren Alwan reflects on her father’s time living near Yucca Valley in the ’60s and ’70s.

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‘The Sad Impermanence of Everything’

Writer Lauren Alwan comments on the paintings featured in a trip to the Louvre in Percival Everett’s novel Telephone, the May CBC selection.

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A Name for What’s Not There

In The Wrong End of the Telescope, the August CBC selection, author Rabih Alameddine uses the approach of intimist painters.