"She hated the narrow dirt mile between their trailer and town. She wanted to erase it the same way she might spit and rub a number off the back of her hand.
Excerpt of the first couple pages of Shot-Blue featured in BOMB Magazine. Link to it here.
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BOMB Magazine: Ohal Interview
"What I write comes together in what feels like real cavernous spaces with their own gravitational pull, regardless of where I am. These imagined spaces are important to me. When I begin working and get enraptured with a sound, playing around with it gradually reveals the space in which it's set, which in turn reveals more sounds and phrases that may belong in that space."
BOMB Magazine: Eka Kurniawan Interview
"Ghosts pour off the pages of Eka Kurniawan’s debut novel, Beauty Is a Wound. They rub at the windowpane and even play hands at the card table. Badly buried in the twentieth century, their “damaged bodies” have now arisen, seeking justice. And Kurniawan, in telling their stories, is giving it to them."