“I learned to adore the way he sidled against me and to hate his momentary affection, just as he learned to detach from me in weariness and depend on me in hunger. Days with him were a quick education in a cat’s existence.” I once spent a year shadowing a musician I loved, whose body […]
Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?
“When the media covered women in the grunge and alternative scene, it treated them like a genre unto itself. This genre, though, received almost no in-depth profiles or features.” Books are one of the great joys in my life. The other is music. I’ve been following singer songwriter Neko Case since 1997, after picking up […]
A found list is a rare analog window into someone else’s needs—an accidental autobiography, a blank space to be filled with one’s imagination.
The editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.
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Her medium: the cremains of departed loved ones. Her mission: to change your perspective on the end of life.
This is life inside New York City’s legendary building during pandemic, where history and modern life meet in the quiet halls.
“All of it began with the call for help at 50 Child Street.”
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