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THE SEAPLANE ON FINAL APPROACH by Rebecca Rukeyser

Submitted by mcutler on Fri, 2022-07-22 22:39
Posted on July 22, 2022 in
THE SEAPLANE ON FINAL APPROACH by Rebecca Rukeyser
Rebecca Rukeyser sat down with best-selling author Carmen Maria Machado for ELLE.com to discuss “Youth and Sleaze” in Rukeyser’s debut novel, THE SEAPLANE ON FINAL APPROACH. Machado praises: “[Rukeyser] spends a great deal of the book outlining various things that are or are not sleazy and also trying to identify and pursue sleaziness, as she recognizes it. It’s a tremendous engine for the book, way more than I would’ve expected if you just described it to me…I think what makes me so interested in the setting in particular, besides the physical specificness of it, which is so beautifully written in this book, is also the quality of it being the last frontier. This idea, the way they talk about, it’s very westward expansion, homesteads. There's even this quality of almost colonialist storytelling. It’s constantly a space of invention and just forging ahead and authenticity.” Doubleday publish the novel on June 7, 2022.