“This is the other thing about Phish: you can be just as earnest and dorky as you want to be.”
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An Addict, a Nurse, and a Christmas Resurrection
Working the night shift on an intensive care unit, Suzanne Ohlmann brushes up against death, Jesus, and her biological father.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Parsing Her Identity With A Long-Lost Folder, Plus the Internet
A.M. Homes wrestles with her ambivalence toward learning more about her birth parents and the circumstances of her adoption.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Shackled to Twitter
The pros and cons of building one’s brand on Twitter.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, History, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’
Nina MacLaughlin discusses her retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “[In] my very vague high school memories…there was no discussion of the fact that this book is just rape after rape after rape.”
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
That’s All, Folks! The End of the Blockbuster Era in Alaska
At the end of July, no one in Alaska will be able to “Make it a Blockbuster Night!”
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Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.
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My Unsexual Revolution
Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what ‘normal’ is, anyway.
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United States of Conspiracy: An Interview with Anna Merlan
“Most people in America believe in one conspiracy to some extent, but the far end of the pool … is this desire to show that you really do reject all knowable authority.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Running Dysmorphic
On competitive running, exactness, and finding permission to be myself.
