This week, we’re sharing stories from Robert Sanchez, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Emily Van Duyne, David Ferris, and Jaya Saxena.
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Grace: An Unfinished Draft, A Fire
“In Texas—Georgia—in Alabama—all over this vast canvas of fear that we call America, women will die. They won’t have time to run away. They will be great-Aunts only in name, and in death. And their deaths will disappear into a language made and remade by men to cover their shitty sins.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Fabric of History
Kirsten Tranter is cleaning out her closet. But how does the Marie Kondo method work for a “depressive personality…for whom joy is often an elusive feeling”?
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Spark Connection
Kirsten Tranter is cleaning out her closet. But her clothes don’t spark joy, they spark memory.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Lighter
Colin Gillis is happy with most of the changes a massive weight change have brought, but finds unexpectedness sadness and loss, too.
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On Being Smaller
Colin Gillis finds both joy and an unexpected sadness after losing one-third of his body weight.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Blithe, Euphoric, Grateful, and Over
Monica Uszerowicz reflects on what living through the Holocaust does to a survivor’s relationship to food, hunger, and eating for pleasure, and how these relationships get passed on to successive generations.
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Survivor Syndrome; or, Snacking While Jewish
“Milk was served proudly, whenever we could have it, as a way to celebrate life. Someone had been so close to death and seen so much of it and then survived.”