How women writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Sophie Calle, found inspiration and freedom by navigating cities on foot.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
How women writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Sophie Calle, found inspiration and freedom by navigating cities on foot.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Writing
Use and Abuse
Amy Long on how it feels to fight for the man you don’t want.
Posted inNonfiction
I’ve Found Her
Photos of an elderly French stranger has one Canadian writer examining the threads that connect people across continents and generations.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Who I Became at the Running of the Bulls
In Pamplona, Ella Alexander found an adrenaline rush, an interesting story, and a side of herself she didn’t recognize.
Posted inNonfiction
Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Learning to Swim in a Sea of Uncertainty
Katie Prout was all set to teach her homeward-bound Navy Officer brother everything she learned in swim class. Then the Trump administration issued new orders.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
I’ve Found Her
Photos of an elderly French stranger has one Canadian writer examining the threads that connect people across continents and generations.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, First Chapters, Story
Getting Out the Message To Save Himself
In Don Waters’ short story “Full of Days,” a grieving Las Vegas man uses an anti-abortion billboard to justify his own pained existence.
