Winston Ross recalls the heartbreaking ordeal his family endured after his mother’s routine surgery led to post-operative delirium.
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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Technology, Unapologetic Women
Repairman-man-man-(wo)man
Lauren Hough recounts a decade of misadventures as a female cable tech in the DC Metro Area.
Posted inNonfiction
Don’t Come Around Here No More
Tom Petty’s psychedelic Alice in Wonderland video reminded one woman of the way sexual harassment shaped her adolescence and made her want to disappear.
Posted inNonfiction
Mountains, Transcending
“Ever since I was five years old,” wrote opera singer–turned–Buddhist lama Alexandra David-Néel, “I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and to set out for the Unknown.”
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Workshopping Workshop: A Reading List
“In workshop, what, if anything, can be written on a syllabus or spoken aloud in class to ensure that each and every participant’s work is read with care?”
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
The Occupation of a Woman Writer
Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month In Books: The Anxiety of No Influence
This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about pasts and futures, and how lineages stretch across time.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Makeover Scene Gets a Makeover
Everyone laughs at how ridiculous makeover scenes are, but these swift internal metamorphoses aren’t much better.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Because Chernobyl is Safer Than a War Zone
Kovalenko’s choice? Facing mortars on a daily basis or exposing your children to the after-effects of Chernobyl.
