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Alana Massey

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

How to Replace a Ghost

by Alana Massey October 30, 2017October 19, 2022

En route to a wedding, Alana Massey is haunted by the ghosts of relationships past.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Podcasts, Reading List, Uncategorized

Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy

by Emily Perper March 26, 2017October 19, 2022

Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes

Publishing’s New Four-Letter Word

by michelleweber January 29, 2017October 19, 2022

Publishing asks women — but not men — to be nice, as well as talented. Should we ask men to be more nice, or give women the leeway to be less so?

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Definition of Grace

by juliawick November 23, 2015October 19, 2022

Alana Massey writes beautifully about losing faith while at divinity school.

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