Advice on Motherhood

Everyone’s an expert, and often sexist, too.

Published: Sep 1, 2018
Length: 24 minutes (6,188 words)

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

“Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 17, 2019
Length: 40 minutes (10,042 words)

School for Girls

In this personal essay, years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 18, 2019
Length: 28 minutes (7,121 words)

The Rise of ‘Three-Car Garage Rock’

Who says the suburbs never produced anything memorable?

Source: Curbed LA
Published: Aug 10, 2017
Length: 12 minutes (3,125 words)

Bearing the Weight of My Grandfathers’ Old Clothes

In adopting outerwear worn by the men who came before him, Aram Mrjoian considers his childhood misperceptions of traditional masculinity.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 14, 2019
Length: 13 minutes (3,320 words)

The Making of a Millennial Woman

“To demand someone enter into and entertain your anxious mind-palace and reckon with your complicated and endlessly fascinating individuality can be an act of power. But who gets to be an individual to the Western public? Who gets to be complex?”

Source: Another Gaze
Published: Jun 12, 2019
Length: 15 minutes (3,960 words)

‘None of This Happened the Way You Think It Did”

“But losing her friend twice, first to cancer and then to the underworld of the cadaver market, reminded her that, no matter how much she attempted to confront death, there were many unimagined trap doors.”

Published: Jun 10, 2019
Length: 22 minutes (5,549 words)

Church vs. State

Even though many Filipinos are pleased with their controversial president’s openly violent war on drugs, many in the Philippine Catholic Church are waging a campaign of resistance at great personal cost.

Published: Jun 1, 2019
Length: 28 minutes (7,137 words)

Driven

In an age when driving is the next frontier, a 22-year-old mother tries to become the first woman to drive cross-country. Riding into mysterious pre-highway terrain, she rewrites history and faces betrayal closer than she ever imagined.

Published: Jun 11, 2019
Length: 30 minutes (7,600 words)

Father’s Little Helper

A personal essay in which, while under the influence of Valium, Scott Korb reflects on all the fathers he could have been and the father he has become.

Author: Scott Korb
Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 12, 2019
Length: 13 minutes (3,467 words)