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Carmiel Banasky
CARMIEL BANASKY is the author of the novel, The Suicide of Claire Bishop, published with Dzanc Books. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, PEN America, American Short Fiction, Slice, Guernica, The Rumpus, and on NPR, among other places. She earned her BA from the University of Arizona and her MFA from Hunter College, where she taught undergraduate Creative Writing.
Your Body Becomes You
By Carmiel BanaskyHow does a book imprint a body? Emotionally? Neurologically? Physically? Can a book become you, like food? I ate an entire red snapper by myself on a hot afternoon in Thailand. It was too big for me.
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