The first summer I lived in New York, I kept falling sickeningly in love. Everything else was terrible. I was 22, it was a really hot summer and I had no air conditioning, the trains kept breaking. There was a trash fire on the 2 train. I got stuck on the Q train between DeKalb…
I saw FKA Twigs perform at the Kings Theater in Flatbush in 2019. She was midway through her Magdalene tour and at a peak of her success so far. The…
I’ve always said that although writing about love is interesting and perennial, writing about dating is usually exceptionally boring. A certain recent…
I was trying to hang my shelves back up in my new apartment and gave up and started writing this. One of my old roommates who had done construction and…
Whenever I’m looking for an apartment, which seems to be all the time, I think about Carrie Bradshaw’s much-quoted line from Sex and the City: ““In New…
I’ve been telling everyone I talk to that Bones and All made cannibalism sexy, the way that vampires have become sexy thanks to Anne Rice and Twilight…
Something I think about a lot is how when I was in graduate school, I had to attend this weekly lecture seminar. The first year students shopped for…
I started having jaw problems when I was in high school. I assume from relentless years of clenching. Gradually, at some point, I realized it was…
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