Jenny Bhatt recalls the rites of passage that led to her shift in identity from corporate executive to woman writer of color.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Fat Girl Cries Herself to Sleep At Night: An Illustrated Essay
Living in a body can be hysterically complicated.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Cost of Being a Regular Ol’ American Place
What does it mean for the Midwest to think of itself as a featureless land full of average Americans?
Posted inFiction, Writing
Why We Still Can’t Quit F. Scott Fitzgerald
With a new “lost” short story published by The New Yorker, the bottle is just about dry.
Posted inBooks, Science & Nature
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Cheerful Novel of Climate Change
The sci-fi writer explains how his city-dwellers learn to survive and thrive after a climate-change catastrophe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Sports, Story
Smell, Memory
Perfumers evoke the elegance of an imagined tennis game, not the stench of a real one.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Every Mission is a Suicide Mission
Accompanying a contestant to a pro-level Galaga tournament to discover how many digital space bugs you have to destroy to find renown, community, and a modicum of inner peace.
Posted inUnapologetic Women, Writing
Arundhati Roy Doesn’t Care What You ThinkÂ
While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.
Posted inNonfiction
A Prescription for Forgetting
Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Literature by the Numbers
Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
