Oh! Small-bany! Part 2

The second chapter in Novelist Elisa Albert’s Albany “quartet.” Notes from an awful winter.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 31, 2018
Length: 23 minutes (5,940 words)

To Be Clean

A tender relationship with a fellow exotic dancer shows Natassja Schiel how to love her sister, a recovering addict.

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Published: Aug 27, 2018
Length: 26 minutes (6,630 words)

Semi-Fluid States: The Rigid Line of Straightness

In the fourth installment of her series on #Dating_While_Woke, Minda Honey interrogates her sexuality and questions the future of straight-by-default.

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Published: Aug 24, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,750 words)

Giving Up the Ghost

After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.

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Published: Aug 20, 2018
Length: 19 minutes (4,759 words)

Brown Girl with Bubble Gum

As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.

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Published: Aug 17, 2018
Length: 10 minutes (2,676 words)

An Introduction to Death

In this essay from our Fine Lines series, raising a teenager of her own offers author A.M. Homes a glimpse into her mother’s experience of raising her.

Author: A.M. Homes
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 13, 2018
Length: 4 minutes (1,200 words)

The 17-Year Itch

In this personal essay, Laura Jean Baker finds that being a feminist married to a progressive man isn’t a fail-safe against sexism occasionally intruding in their marriage.

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Published: Aug 7, 2018
Length: 10 minutes (2,590 words)

The Killer Who Spared My Mother

In an attempt to understand her own chronic pain, Diana Whitney uncovers a violent trauma from her mother’s past.

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Published: Aug 3, 2018
Length: 13 minutes (3,338 words)

A Woman’s Work: The Art of the Day Job

In the second installment of her illustrated essay series, Carolita Johnson looks back on the many ways she’s tried to juggle work with her *work.*

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Published: Aug 2, 2018
Length: 20 minutes (5,134 words)

‘Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure’: An Interview with Bill Malone and Tracey Laird

The co-authors of ‘Country Music USA’ – a revised edition of the genre’s definitive history – talk with music writer Will Hermes about the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 1, 2018
Length: 14 minutes (3,585 words)