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Balthazar, 1997
“The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed.”
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Sense of Scents
“The annual olfactory rush of cedar pollen is a sign of home.”
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Loving Him Meant Facing My Greatest Fear
“Living with a disability, I shielded myself from dance. Then I met him.”
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Album as Poem, List as Confession, and Our Top 5
We may often think of poetry as something formal or grand, or meant for the pages of a book. But these two essays remind us that poetry lives in many places.
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The Sabbath Stew
What started as a loophole has remained one of Judaism’s most evocative, redolent foods.
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Tell Me Why the Watermelon Grows
“Throughout its botanical, cultural, and social history, it has been a vehicle for our ideas about community, survival, and what we owe the future.”
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It’s Dead Around Here
“A ghost town enthusiast searches for the essence of these scarcely populated locales.”
Posted inCuration
A Longreads Collection of Catapult Stories
A reading list of essays we loved from Catapult magazine.
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I Am the “Other” in “Mother”
“By choosing surrogacy, I felt I outsourced the very essence of what makes a woman worthy.”
