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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Colleen Burner : Sister Golden Calf
Description: Colleen Burnerâs novella Sister Golden Calf is the story of two sisters on the road set in a world without men. Inspired, in part, by Vanessa Veselkaâs essay âGreen Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters,â Sister Golden Calf by its very existence interrogates the road novel tradition it now becomes a part of. As Leni Zumas says: âIn shiveringly beautiful prose, Colleen Burner maps a wild voyage into grief, love, and radical forms of kinship. Their novel unstitches the fixed seams of self and stranger, inviting us to touch the peculiar, precise commotions t...