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Emily Wells

Emily Wells is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles, at work on a book about 1800's French hysteria and contemporary chronic illness. She has an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside, and now teaches writing at UC Irvine.



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Angry Ballerinas

Essay

September 2019

Emily Wells

Essay

September 2019

Balanchine, the Wilis, and Collective Female Anger in Ballet   Growing up in ballet, I occasionally trained with a visiting instructor who had danced...

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Interview

November 2011

Interview with Margaret Jull Costa

Sam Gordon

Interview

November 2011

On first impressions, this interview with Margaret Jull Costa, happening as it did – for the most part –...

fiction

August 2013

How to Be an American

Will Heinrich

fiction

August 2013

Begin with a man on the beach. The sea is strangely iridescent, lighter in its lights and blacker in...

feature

October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

feature

October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

 

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