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Claire Mullen is a writer and audio producer based in Mexico City. icon

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The Return of the Surrealist Women

By Claire Mullen

In Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet, a woman, Carmella, revels in sending letters to strangers ...

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