“Loss was at the root of it. When you’re tired of losing, you hold on to whatever you can.”
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Finding the Magic in Writing with Lidia Yuknavitch
On shitty first, second, and third drafts; embracing the struggle to write; and more.
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A Longread for a Long Weekend
“Whoever says Americans don’t talk about death has yet to meet my Soviet family. We’re all too superstitious, afraid to let death dance around our tongues as though saying it will make it happen sooner.” Dear reader, it’s officially the final Friday of summer. It’s also somehow September, even though June was just last week. […]
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How To Chop An Onion
“If fire and water and salt could transform something pungent, bloody, uncontained into one of savor and energy, what else could be transformed?”
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My Grandpa, the Fascist?
“An old family album sent me on a journey through Italy’s dark past in Libya.”
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Century-Scale Storage
“If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?”
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Worth the Weight?
“Every loss creates an irreplaceable void. The fabric of a community is altered forever.”
