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Group dynamics, intimacy between strangers, and rehearsing for loss: A review and conversation between Autumn Joi Knight and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
by Ryan-Ashley Anderson//| The Deep EndIt’s Outside the Paper: In conversation with Samiya Bashir on her poetry collection, I Hope This Helps
by Naya Clark//| The Deep EndInterview by Naya Clark Samiya Bashir’s critically-lauded, multimodal poetry collection, I Hope This Helps (2025, NightBoat Books), begins with a quote from actress Niecy Nash-Bett’s 2024 Emmy award acceptance speech: “I want to thank me for believing in me …” This bold tribute, which echoes Snoop Dogg’s words six years prior during his Hollywood Walk…
THE ORGANIZATION IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU, a Review from The Deep End
by Ryan-Ashley Anderson//| The Deep EndI was drinking coffee and reading The Organization is Here to Support You. It was the morning, which meant my patience for bullshit was still relatively high. I had been reading it since the night before—tearing through it, really—and had just gotten to page 87 where the book’s most loathsome character, Devin Brault, made a…