Making sense of absence in the ever-dissolving karst of Missouri.
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Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
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Analyzing the ‘Bimbo’: A Reading List on Hollywood Blondes
The source of glamour, sex, and transgression? Or a carefully crafted persona? A closer look at the Hollywood blonde.
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Present Tense: The Long Shadow of an Eating Disorder
Eating disorders never truly go away. They just go quiet. For a while.
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Death of the Hiker
Lost on a dangerous trail, Leyton Cassidy’s thoughts take her down a dark path.
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The Hero of Goodall Park
In 2018, a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, killing one spectator. Fifty years before, in upstate New York, a car had hit and killed a little girl. The two incidents were part of the same remarkable story.
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Wearing All the Hats: A Chat with the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue
In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Seyward Darby about “Fault Lines,” her Atavist writing debut.
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Best of 2024: All Our Number One Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number one slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game: A Baseball Reading List
Jacqueline Alnes mines personal memory as she examines baseball’s culture, its hidden histories, and the gender and disparities in the game today.
