Carol Edgarian

1 month ago | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

Listen to Helen Gu read her poem: It’s sharp enough to pierce nine suns—           the knife my mother seizes in herwaxen hands. Next to the storm-stained window       muted with breath, the rusted tip beggingfor a body between the wooden frames. Beneath       the chrysanthemum light fogged with want, I imaginemy mother as a girl on the kitchen floor, knees       stacked like broken plates.

1 month ago | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

Listen to Jake Welton read their poem: i’ll never be this beautiful again / bleeding orchid / face down in a pool of booze / sweat illuminated in whiskey-refracted light / to think this makes me a woman / rhinestones in my teeth / press-on nail that took some cuticle with it / all the things we do in bathroom stalls / our false uteri / always detachable and quivering / stitches never pulled tight enough / we are good boys / anything but human / good boys worshipping skin in the darkest parts...

1 month ago | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

An Essay Share Facebook Threads Reddit Forward Print Copy link Listen to Dylan Trinidad read his essay: I worry about him sometimes, Dad mumbles as we drive away from Uncle’s house. Leave him be, Mom says, he’s doing the best he can. The car goes silent after that. I look back at the house. It’s farther away than ever. Uncle is a little odd. That’s what everyone says, anyway. Maybe it’s the way he often loses his balance or how he always smells like smoke. Most people ignore it. Not Dad, though.

2 months ago | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

We are celebrating Chris Bohjalian’s work and his latest novel, The Jackal’s Mistress, with a visit from our N10 interview series:1. Who is your favorite character in fiction; your fave character in life? Ah, “character.” As in the state of her moral compass: “Her character was unimpeachable, and that was why everyone looked up to her.” Or “character,” that person who was, for better or worse, bigger than life: “He had zero filter and would say anything. He was such a character.

Feb 3, 2025 | narrativemagazine.com | Carol Edgarian

We caught up with Allegra Goodman as she marks the publication of her new novel, Isola. 1. Who is your favorite character in fiction; your fave character in life? I can’t choose just one! In fiction my favorite characters include Pierre Bezukhov and Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace, Huck and Jim in Huckleberry Finn, Mary Garth and Camden Farebrother in Middlemarch. Like colors in a painting, characters in fiction take on their particular hues in relation to each other. 2.