A prescription for new reads? Yes, please! 🙌 BLR is pleased to bring you our new Weekly Reads — your literary Rx. Each week, we'll highlight one outstanding story, poem, or essay from BLR's archive. 📧 Sign up for our newsletter to get more information about that week's author, editor's notes, and more! https://blreview.org/newsletter/ This week's read is "Girls, At Play" by Celeste Ng, who went on to write the bestselling novels Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. BLR is proud to have been the home of one of Celeste's earliest publications, which won a Pushcart Prize. 💜 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/epfYsFbG (fb)

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