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Century-Scale Storage
“If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?”
Posted inNewsletter
Outsourcing Your Appetite to YouTube
In this essay, co-published with Cake Zine, Adam Dalva writes about Ozempic, his fixation with watching food influencers eat, and a visit to a steakhouse.
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What Remains
“We may know that nothing lasts forever, but this knowledge doesn’t alleviate the loneliness of grief.”
Posted inFeature
Three Strings: Past, Present, and Future
Finding beauty, human connection, and one’s heritage in the resonant sounds of the dulcimer.
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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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Safety Net
These days, when you work as a librarian in America, there is no lack of emergencies.
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Flying Solo
On self-love and self-acceptance while aging in a disabled body.
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It’s Dead Around Here
“A ghost town enthusiast searches for the essence of these scarcely populated locales.”
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They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout
“There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating a story about death. Meanwhile, the real thing operated just outside my window.”
