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A worthy companion to “Wuthering Heights”: Kathe Koja's “Catherine the Ghost”

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By Mike McClelland
| Chicago Review of Books Verified
In his essay “Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights,” Lord David Cecil asserts that “Emily Brontë’s imagination is the most extraordinary that ever applied itself to English fiction.” What, then, of Kathe Koja’s? With her Catherine the Ghost, Koja has taken our primary artifact of Brontë’s brilliance, the great gothic novel Wuthering Heights, and imagined, at last, a unique yet fitting voice for the novel’s tragic heroine, Catherine.
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A Baker's Dozen of Compelling Personal Narratives

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By Liza Katz Duncan, Natalie Jabbar, Mike McClelland, Melody Glenn
| Substack
Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals: Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I reprinted “Without Repentance, No Forgiveness” by .
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Police Bodycams Are Supposed to Be Tools for Accountability. Are They?

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By Mike McClelland
| Reader Supported News
After my nervous breakdown during a police stop, I learned a cottage industry exposes bodycam footage to online titillation A dear friend texted me in February, saying: “Hey sweetie, the bodycam footage of you getting arrested got leaked on YouTube.” My fingers typed out a quick reply – “Omg lol haha what?” – as the rest of my body cramped in horror. Surely it wasn’t anything too bad?
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